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Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-10-17 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

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Central to identity, personal responsibility, economic systems, theology, and the political and military imaginaries, the practice of sacrifice has inspired, di
The Sacrifice of Socrates
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Authors: Wm. Blake Tyrrell
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-10-01 - Publisher: MSU Press

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When Athenians suffered the shame of having lost a war from their own greed and foolishness, around 404 BCE the public’s blame was directed at Socrates, a man
Violence and Dystopia
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Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-09-18 - Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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Violence and Dystopia is a critical examination of imitative desire, scapegoating and sacrifice in selected contemporary Western dystopian narratives through th
Sacrifice
Language: en
Pages: 124
Authors: René Girard
Categories: Philosophy
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In Sacrifice, René Girard interrogates the Brahmanas of Vedic India, exploring coincidences with mimetic theory that are too numerous and striking to be accide
Mimesis and Atonement
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How are we to best understand the statement of faith that Jesus Christ lived, died and rose again 'for us and for salvation?' This question has animated Christi