Selfhood and Sacrifice : René Girard and Charles Taylor on the Crisis of Modernity

O'Shea, Andrew

Continuum Publishing Corporation（2012/03発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 288 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781441117939
• DDC分類 201.7

Full Description

Selfhood and Sacrifice is an original exploration of the ideas of two major contemporary thinkers. O'Shea offers a novel interpretation of Girard's work that opens up his discourse on violence and the sacred into a fruitful engagement with both Taylor's philosophical anthropology and his philosophical history. In an age when religious violence and the role of practical reason in the secular sphere are continually juxtaposed, O'Shea offers new possibilities of responding to the problems of global crisis through the critical lenses of two of the most original and engaging thinkers writing on religion today.

Contents

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.