Andrew O'Shea

Selfhood and Sacrifice

Rene Girard and Charles Taylor on the Crisis of Modernity

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Selfhood and Sacrifice is an original exploration of the ideas of two major contemporary thinkers.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Continnuum-3PL
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Januar 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 424g
• ISBN-13: 9781441117939
• ISBN-10: 1441117938
• Artikelnr.: 34979619

Autorenporträt

Andrew O'Shea

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part 1. From Self to Sacrifice: Girardian Theory;
I. Division and Unity in Literary Space (The Romantic Fallacy);
II Division and Unity in Cultural Space (The Scapegoat Mechanism);
III Negating Subjectivity and History: (Problems within Girardian Theory);
Part 2. From Sacrifice to Self: Taylor's Philosophical Account;
IV Transposing the Old Cosmic Order (The Modern Period);
V Rethinking Division and Unity (Self, Religion, and the Current of Life);
VI Crisis and Unity in Moral Space (Identity and the Good);
Epilogue;
Bibliography