Andrew O'Shea

Selfhood and Sacrifice (eBook, PDF)

René Girard and Charles Taylor on the Crisis of Modernity

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Juni 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781441105769
• Artikelnr.: 38299980

Autorenporträt

Andrew O'Shea is Lecturer in Philosophy of Education and Human Development at St. Patrick's College, Dublin City University, Ireland.

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