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Radical sacrifice
- Title
- Radical sacrifice / Terry Eagleton.
- Author
- Eagleton, Terry, 1943-
- Publication
- New Haven : Yale University Press, [2018]
- ©2018
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- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 182-191) and index.
- Local note
- AUTH: UNIVERSITY OF LANCASTER.
- Contents
- Preface -- Radical sacrifice -- Tragedy and crucifixion -- Martyrdom and mortality -- Exchange and excess -- Kings and beggars -- Endnotes -- Index.
- Call Number
- JFD 19-1573
- ISBN
- 9780300233353
- 0300233353
- LCCN
- 2017963163
- OCLC
- 1002129759
- Author
- Eagleton, Terry, 1943- author. Author
- Title
- Radical sacrifice / Terry Eagleton.
- Publisher
- New Haven : Yale University Press, [2018]
- Copyright Date
- ©2018
- Description
- x, 204 pages ; 22 cm
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Creator/Contributor Characteristics
- MenBritons
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 182-191) and index.
- Summary
- A trenchant analysis of sacrifice as the foundation of the modern, as well as the ancient, social order. The modern conception of sacrifice is at once cast as a victory of self-discipline over desire and condescended to as destructive and archaic abnegation. But even in the Old Testament, the dual natures of sacrifice, embodying both ritual slaughter and moral rectitude, were at odds. In this analysis, Terry Eagleton makes a compelling argument that the idea of sacrifice has long been misunderstood. Pursuing the complex lineage of sacrifice in a lyrical discourse, Eagleton focuses on the Old and New Testaments, offering a virtuosic analysis of the crucifixion, while drawing together a host of philosophers, theologians, and texts-from Hegel, Nietzsche, and Derrida to the Aeneid and The Wings of the Dove. Brilliant meditations on death and eros, Shakespeare and St. Paul, irony and hybridity explore the meaning of sacrifice in modernity, casting off misperceptions of barbarity to reconnect the radical idea to politics and revolution.
- Local Note
- AUTH: UNIVERSITY OF LANCASTER.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 19-1573