TY  - BOOK
AU  - Halbertal,Moshe
TI  - On Sacrifice
SN  - 9781400842353 (electronic bk.)
AV  - BL570 
U1  - 203.4203/.4 
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Princeton
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Sacrifice
KW  - Self-sacrifice
KW  - RELIGION / Reference
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Description based upon print version of record
N2  - The idea and practice of sacrifice play a profound role in religion, ethics, and politics. In this brief book, philosopher Moshe Halbertal explores the meaning and implications of sacrifice, developing a theory of sacrifice as an offering and examining the relationship between sacrifice, ritual, violence, and love. On Sacrifice also looks at the place of self-sacrifice within ethical life and at the complex role of sacrifice as both a noble and destructive political ideal. In the religious domain, Halbertal argues, sacrifice is an offering, a gift given in the context of a hierarchical rela
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