On sacrifice / Moshe Halbertal.
نوع المادة :![نص](/opac-tmpl/lib/famfamfam/BK.png)
- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780691152851 (hardcover)
- 0691152853 (hardcover)
- BL570 .H35 2012
نوع المادة | المكتبة الحالية | رقم الطلب | رقم النسخة | حالة | تاريخ الإستحقاق | الباركود | |
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UAE Federation Library | مكتبة اتحاد الإمارات General Collection | المجموعات العامة | BL570 .H35 2012 (إستعراض الرف(يفتح أدناه)) | C.1 | Library Use Only | داخل المكتبة فقط | 30010011110129 | ||
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UAE Federation Library | مكتبة اتحاد الإمارات General Collection | المجموعات العامة | BL570 .H35 2012 (إستعراض الرف(يفتح أدناه)) | C.2 | المتاح | 30010011110163 |
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. As such it is vulnerable to rejection, a trauma at the root of both ritual and violence. An offering is also an ambiguous gesture torn between a genuine expression of gratitude and love and an instrument of exchange, a tension that haunts the practice of sacrifice. In the moral and political domains, sacrifice is tied to the idea of self-transcendence, in which an individual sacrifices his or her self-interest for the sake of higher values and commitments. While self-sacrifice has great potential moral value, it can also be used to justify the most brutal acts. Halbertal attempts to unravel the relationship between self-sacrifice is far more problematic than exaggerated self-love. In his exploration of the positive and negative dimensions of self-sacrifice, Halbertal also addresses the role of past sacrifice in obligating future generations and in creating a bond for political associations, and considers the function of the modern state as a sacrificial community. -- from dust jacket.