This book is an original exploration of the idea of sacrifice by
one of the world's pre-eminent philosophers of religion. "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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