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On sacrifice / Moshe Halbertal.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2012Description: 1 online resource (ix, 134 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781400842353
  • 1400842352
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 203.4 203/.4
LOC classification:
  • BL570
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Offering, rejection, and ritual -- Sacrifice, exchange, and love -- Sacrifice and its substitutes -- Self-transcendence and violence -- War and sacrificial logic -- Sacrifice and the political bond -- The tate and the sacrificial stage.
Summary: The idea and practice of sacrifice play a profound role in religion, ethics, and politics. In this brief book, philosopher Moshe Halbertal explores the meaning and implications of sacrifice, developing a theory of sacrifice as an offering and examining the relationship between sacrifice, ritual, violence, and love. On Sacrifice also looks at the place of self-sacrifice within ethical life and at the complex role of sacrifice as both a noble and destructive political ideal. In the religious domain, Halbertal argues, sacrifice is an offering, a gift given in the context of a hierarchical relationship.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)434564

Print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 117-131) and index.

Offering, rejection, and ritual -- Sacrifice, exchange, and love -- Sacrifice and its substitutes -- Self-transcendence and violence -- War and sacrificial logic -- Sacrifice and the political bond -- The tate and the sacrificial stage.

The idea and practice of sacrifice play a profound role in religion, ethics, and politics. In this brief book, philosopher Moshe Halbertal explores the meaning and implications of sacrifice, developing a theory of sacrifice as an offering and examining the relationship between sacrifice, ritual, violence, and love. On Sacrifice also looks at the place of self-sacrifice within ethical life and at the complex role of sacrifice as both a noble and destructive political ideal. In the religious domain, Halbertal argues, sacrifice is an offering, a gift given in the context of a hierarchical relationship.