Sacrifice Imagined is an original exploration of the idea of
sacrifice by one of the world's preeminent philosophers of
religion. Despisers of religion have poured scorn upon the idea of
sacrifice as an index of the irrational and wicked in religious
practice. Nor does its secularised form seem much more appealing.
One need only think of the appalling cult of sacrifice in numerous
totalitarian regimes of the twentieth century. Yet sacrifice
remains a part of our cultural and intellectual imaginary'. Hedley
proposes good reasons to think that issues of global conflict and
the ecological crisis highlight the continuing relevance of the
topic of sacrifice for contemporary culture. The subject of
sacrifice has been decisively influenced by two books: Girard's The
Violence and the Sacred and Burkert's Homo Necans. Both of these
are theories of sacrifice as violence. Hedley's book challenges
both of these highly influential theories and presents a theory of
sacrifice as renunciation of the will. His guiding influences in
this are the much misunderstood Joseph de Maistre and the Cambridge
Platonists.
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