Selfhood and Sacrifice : Ren Girard and Charles Taylor on the Crisis of Modernity.
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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Continuum International Pub. Group,
2010.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | 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 rel. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (289 pages) |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
ISBN: | 9781441105769 144110576X |