RADICAL SACRIFICE

A trenchant analysis of sacrifice as the foundation of the modern, as well as the ancient, social orderThe modern conception of sacr ifice is at once cast as a victory of self-discipline over desire and condescended to as destructive and archaic abnegation. But eve n in the Old Testament, the dual natures of sacrifice, embodying both ritual slaughter and moral rectitude, were at odds. In this an alysis, Terry Eagleton makes a compelling argument that the idea of sacrifice has long been misunderstood. Pursuing the complex line age of s...[Read more]