{"product_id":"sacrifice-imagined-douglas-hedley-9781441194459","title":"Sacrifice Imagined: Violence, Atonement, and the Sacred","description":"Sacrifice Imagined is an original exploration of the idea of sacrifice by one of the world's preeminent philosophers of religion. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDespisers 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Douglas Hedley\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1441194452\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781441194459\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/08\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.95lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.10w x 0.60d","brand":"Douglas Hedley","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44058535559423,"sku":"9781441194459","price":51.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_df296cfa-1dee-42cc-9c1f-e576846e6126.jpg?v=1685053120","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/sacrifice-imagined-douglas-hedley-9781441194459","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}