Ariel Glucklich
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- May 2008
- ISBN:
- 9780195314052
- eISBN:
- 9780199871766
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195314052.003.0003
- Subject:
- Religion, Hinduism
This chapter discusses Hindu origins. The Indo‐Aryan controversy is examined: Did Hindu scriptures emerge as an indigenous product or did they arrive with migrating foreigners? The chapter discusses ...
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This chapter discusses Hindu origins. The Indo‐Aryan controversy is examined: Did Hindu scriptures emerge as an indigenous product or did they arrive with migrating foreigners? The chapter discusses the religious thought of the Rig Veda with a special focus on the sacrifice and its intellectual foundations.Less
This chapter discusses Hindu origins. The Indo‐Aryan controversy is examined: Did Hindu scriptures emerge as an indigenous product or did they arrive with migrating foreigners? The chapter discusses the religious thought of the Rig Veda with a special focus on the sacrifice and its intellectual foundations.
Jared Pappas-Kelley
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781526129246
- eISBN:
- 9781526141927
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9781526129246.001.0001
- Subject:
- Art, Art Theory and Criticism
Solvent form examines the destruction of art—through objects that have been destroyed (lost in fires, floods, vandalism, or similarly those artists that actively court or represent this destruction, ...
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Solvent form examines the destruction of art—through objects that have been destroyed (lost in fires, floods, vandalism, or similarly those artists that actively court or represent this destruction, such as Gustav Metzger), but also as a process within art that the object courts through form. In this manner, Solvent form looks to events such as the Momart warehouse fire in 2004 as well as the actions of art thief Stéphane Breitwieser in which the stolen work was destroyed. Against this overlay, a tendency is mapped whereby individuals attempt to conceptually gather these destroyed or lost objects, to somehow recoup in their absence. From this vantage, Solvent form—hinging on the dual meaning in the words solvent and solvency—proposes an idea of art as an attempt to secure and fix, which correspondingly undoes and destroys through its inception. It also weaves a narrative of art that intermingles with Jean Baudrillard’s ideas on disappearance, Georges Bataille and Paul Virilio’s negative or reverse miracle, Jean-Luc Nancy’s concept of the image (or imago as votive that keeps present the past, yet also burns), and Giorgio Agamben’s notion of art as an attempt to make the moment appear permeable. Likewise, it is through these destructions that one might distinguish a solvency within art and catch an operation in which something is made visible through these moments of destruction when art’s metaphorical undoing emerges as oddly literal.Less
Solvent form examines the destruction of art—through objects that have been destroyed (lost in fires, floods, vandalism, or similarly those artists that actively court or represent this destruction, such as Gustav Metzger), but also as a process within art that the object courts through form. In this manner, Solvent form looks to events such as the Momart warehouse fire in 2004 as well as the actions of art thief Stéphane Breitwieser in which the stolen work was destroyed. Against this overlay, a tendency is mapped whereby individuals attempt to conceptually gather these destroyed or lost objects, to somehow recoup in their absence. From this vantage, Solvent form—hinging on the dual meaning in the words solvent and solvency—proposes an idea of art as an attempt to secure and fix, which correspondingly undoes and destroys through its inception. It also weaves a narrative of art that intermingles with Jean Baudrillard’s ideas on disappearance, Georges Bataille and Paul Virilio’s negative or reverse miracle, Jean-Luc Nancy’s concept of the image (or imago as votive that keeps present the past, yet also burns), and Giorgio Agamben’s notion of art as an attempt to make the moment appear permeable. Likewise, it is through these destructions that one might distinguish a solvency within art and catch an operation in which something is made visible through these moments of destruction when art’s metaphorical undoing emerges as oddly literal.
Jonathon S. Kahn
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- September 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780195307894
- eISBN:
- 9780199867516
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195307894.003.0006
- Subject:
- Religion, Theology
A crucial moral virtue of Du Bois's religious discourse is the virtue of sacrifice. His discourse of sacrifice is composed of two halves. The first half is contained in his series of parables that ...
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A crucial moral virtue of Du Bois's religious discourse is the virtue of sacrifice. His discourse of sacrifice is composed of two halves. The first half is contained in his series of parables that depict the lynching of a black Christ figures. The other half is what he calls his “Gospel of Sacrifice,” in which he enjoins black Americans to sacrifice for each other and the country at large. The difficult questions at the heart of this chapter revolve around understanding these two halves of Du Bois's sacrificial discourse. This chapter argues that despite its dangers, Du Bois acts as a Durkheimian priest and battles America's sacrificial perversions with an empowering discourse of sacrifice of his own. Du Bois attempts to transform black Americans from the victims of a sacrificial system into agents of a sacrificial system who then make claims on the political, social, and even material goods of the sacrificial system.Less
A crucial moral virtue of Du Bois's religious discourse is the virtue of sacrifice. His discourse of sacrifice is composed of two halves. The first half is contained in his series of parables that depict the lynching of a black Christ figures. The other half is what he calls his “Gospel of Sacrifice,” in which he enjoins black Americans to sacrifice for each other and the country at large. The difficult questions at the heart of this chapter revolve around understanding these two halves of Du Bois's sacrificial discourse. This chapter argues that despite its dangers, Du Bois acts as a Durkheimian priest and battles America's sacrificial perversions with an empowering discourse of sacrifice of his own. Du Bois attempts to transform black Americans from the victims of a sacrificial system into agents of a sacrificial system who then make claims on the political, social, and even material goods of the sacrificial system.
Gerald O'Collins SJ and Mario Farrugia SJ
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- January 2005
- ISBN:
- 9780199259946
- eISBN:
- 9780191602122
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0199259941.003.0007
- Subject:
- Religion, Theology
From the rites of Christian initiation (baptism, confirmation, and the Eucharist), this chapter passes to the sacraments of the sick (penance and the anointing of the sick), and to the sacraments in ...
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From the rites of Christian initiation (baptism, confirmation, and the Eucharist), this chapter passes to the sacraments of the sick (penance and the anointing of the sick), and to the sacraments in the service of communion (holy orders and matrimony). The chapter ends by offering a descriptive definition of all seven sacraments.Less
From the rites of Christian initiation (baptism, confirmation, and the Eucharist), this chapter passes to the sacraments of the sick (penance and the anointing of the sick), and to the sacraments in the service of communion (holy orders and matrimony). The chapter ends by offering a descriptive definition of all seven sacraments.
Mira Balberg
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780520295926
- eISBN:
- 9780520968660
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520295926.001.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, Judaism
Blood for Thought delves into a relatively unexplored area of classical rabbinic literature: the vast corpus of laws, regulations, and instructions pertaining to sacrificial rituals. The book traces ...
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Blood for Thought delves into a relatively unexplored area of classical rabbinic literature: the vast corpus of laws, regulations, and instructions pertaining to sacrificial rituals. The book traces and analyzes the ways in which the early rabbis interpreted and conceived of biblical sacrifices, and examines sacrifice and worship in the temple as sites through which the rabbis negotiated new and old intellectual, political, and religious ideas and practices. In its focus on legal-ritual texts and in its cultural orientation, this book diverges from the prevalent approach to the cessation of sacrifice in early Judaism. Rather than viewing the rabbinic project as an attempt to transform a sacrificial religion into a non-sacrificial religion, Blood for Thought argues that the rabbis developed anewsacrificial vision. This new sacrificial vision does not seek to “substitute” obsolete sacrificial practices, but rather to rearrange, reframe, and redefine sacrifice as a critically important component of social and religious life. The book argues that through their seemingly technical legal and ritual discussions, the rabbis present remarkably innovative perspectives on sacrifices and radical interpretations of biblical cultic institutions, and that their reinvention of sacrifice gives this practice new meanings within the greater context of the rabbis’ political and religious ideology.Less
Blood for Thought delves into a relatively unexplored area of classical rabbinic literature: the vast corpus of laws, regulations, and instructions pertaining to sacrificial rituals. The book traces and analyzes the ways in which the early rabbis interpreted and conceived of biblical sacrifices, and examines sacrifice and worship in the temple as sites through which the rabbis negotiated new and old intellectual, political, and religious ideas and practices. In its focus on legal-ritual texts and in its cultural orientation, this book diverges from the prevalent approach to the cessation of sacrifice in early Judaism. Rather than viewing the rabbinic project as an attempt to transform a sacrificial religion into a non-sacrificial religion, Blood for Thought argues that the rabbis developed anewsacrificial vision. This new sacrificial vision does not seek to “substitute” obsolete sacrificial practices, but rather to rearrange, reframe, and redefine sacrifice as a critically important component of social and religious life. The book argues that through their seemingly technical legal and ritual discussions, the rabbis present remarkably innovative perspectives on sacrifices and radical interpretations of biblical cultic institutions, and that their reinvention of sacrifice gives this practice new meanings within the greater context of the rabbis’ political and religious ideology.
Jan N. Bremmer and Andrew Erskine
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748637980
- eISBN:
- 9780748670758
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748637980.003.0018
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, Ancient Religions
There has been one thorough examination of Lucian’s religious beliefs. Its author came to the conclusion that Lucian was an outright atheist. It is not at all easy to say what Lucian’s views are on ...
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There has been one thorough examination of Lucian’s religious beliefs. Its author came to the conclusion that Lucian was an outright atheist. It is not at all easy to say what Lucian’s views are on any subject, let alone religion, for the very simple reason that it is hard to tell when Lucian is speaking in his own voice and is expressing views that are his own. The repeated expression of certain positions by Lucian himself and by what would seem to be sympathetic voices do suggest that Lucian believed the divine to be an all-good, all-giving entity that was completely self-sufficient and so was deaf to the blandishments of prayer and sacrifice.Less
There has been one thorough examination of Lucian’s religious beliefs. Its author came to the conclusion that Lucian was an outright atheist. It is not at all easy to say what Lucian’s views are on any subject, let alone religion, for the very simple reason that it is hard to tell when Lucian is speaking in his own voice and is expressing views that are his own. The repeated expression of certain positions by Lucian himself and by what would seem to be sympathetic voices do suggest that Lucian believed the divine to be an all-good, all-giving entity that was completely self-sufficient and so was deaf to the blandishments of prayer and sacrifice.
Jan N. Bremmer and Andrew Erskine
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748637980
- eISBN:
- 9780748670758
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748637980.003.0006
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, Ancient Religions
This chapter examines the nature of ancient Greek sacrifice. After reviewing some of the theses defended by scholars about Greek sacrifice, it re-examines particularly: a) the theory that Greek ...
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This chapter examines the nature of ancient Greek sacrifice. After reviewing some of the theses defended by scholars about Greek sacrifice, it re-examines particularly: a) the theory that Greek sacrifice was based on the motif of the “non-violence”, in order to disclaim any “guilt of murder”; and b) the statement that the consent of the victim (by a sign of the head) was a very essential modality of the sacrificial ritual. It then discusses the relations between gods and sacrificial animals, taking as example the association between Zeus and the piglet. Finally, it reconsiders the problem of Greek gods as “receivers” of “human victims”.Less
This chapter examines the nature of ancient Greek sacrifice. After reviewing some of the theses defended by scholars about Greek sacrifice, it re-examines particularly: a) the theory that Greek sacrifice was based on the motif of the “non-violence”, in order to disclaim any “guilt of murder”; and b) the statement that the consent of the victim (by a sign of the head) was a very essential modality of the sacrificial ritual. It then discusses the relations between gods and sacrificial animals, taking as example the association between Zeus and the piglet. Finally, it reconsiders the problem of Greek gods as “receivers” of “human victims”.
Jeremy Biles and Kent Brintnall (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- January 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780823265190
- eISBN:
- 9780823266890
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823265190.001.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, Philosophy of Religion
Despite Georges Bataille’s acknowledged influence on major poststructuralist thinkers—including Foucault, Derrida, Kristeva, Lacan, Baudrillard, and Barthes—and his prominence in literary, cultural, ...
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Despite Georges Bataille’s acknowledged influence on major poststructuralist thinkers—including Foucault, Derrida, Kristeva, Lacan, Baudrillard, and Barthes—and his prominence in literary, cultural, and social theory, rarely has he been taken up by scholars of religion, even as issues of the sacred were central to his thinking. Bringing together established scholars and emerging voices, Negative Ecstasies engages Bataille from the perspective of religious studies and theology, forging links with feminist and queer theory, economics, secularism, psychoanalysis, fat studies, and ethics. As these essays demonstrate, Bataille’s work bears significance to contemporary questions in the academy and vital issues in the world. We continue to ignore him at our peril.Less
Despite Georges Bataille’s acknowledged influence on major poststructuralist thinkers—including Foucault, Derrida, Kristeva, Lacan, Baudrillard, and Barthes—and his prominence in literary, cultural, and social theory, rarely has he been taken up by scholars of religion, even as issues of the sacred were central to his thinking. Bringing together established scholars and emerging voices, Negative Ecstasies engages Bataille from the perspective of religious studies and theology, forging links with feminist and queer theory, economics, secularism, psychoanalysis, fat studies, and ethics. As these essays demonstrate, Bataille’s work bears significance to contemporary questions in the academy and vital issues in the world. We continue to ignore him at our peril.
Alessandro Orsini
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781501709838
- eISBN:
- 9781501709630
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9781501709838.003.0007
- Subject:
- Political Science, European Union
This chapter looks a battle between Sacrifice militants and extreme leftists taking place in a major Italian city. It turned on its head the official accounts of a huge fight, involving a hundred or ...
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This chapter looks a battle between Sacrifice militants and extreme leftists taking place in a major Italian city. It turned on its head the official accounts of a huge fight, involving a hundred or more youths, in which Sacrifice militants were entirely to blame. The main Italian TV networks and the major newspapers had dealt at length with this violent encounter, and it had also been the subject of a parliamentary debate, in which left-wing members had warned against the dangers of a return of Fascism. On the basis of the journalists' stories and the politicians' statements, everyone was convinced that Sacrifice Fascists had attacked a peaceful march of left-wing militants without provocation. Public opinion had been horrified by the comrades' violence, and many had asked why the magistrates, under the Italian constitution, had not ordered Sacrifice to be dismantled and its leaders arrested.Less
This chapter looks a battle between Sacrifice militants and extreme leftists taking place in a major Italian city. It turned on its head the official accounts of a huge fight, involving a hundred or more youths, in which Sacrifice militants were entirely to blame. The main Italian TV networks and the major newspapers had dealt at length with this violent encounter, and it had also been the subject of a parliamentary debate, in which left-wing members had warned against the dangers of a return of Fascism. On the basis of the journalists' stories and the politicians' statements, everyone was convinced that Sacrifice Fascists had attacked a peaceful march of left-wing militants without provocation. Public opinion had been horrified by the comrades' violence, and many had asked why the magistrates, under the Italian constitution, had not ordered Sacrifice to be dismantled and its leaders arrested.
Alessandro Orsini
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781501709838
- eISBN:
- 9781501709630
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9781501709838.003.0009
- Subject:
- Political Science, European Union
This concluding chapter recounts the author's expulsion from Sacrifice. The author's research was divided into three stages: approach, entry, and departure. During the approach stage, the author ...
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This concluding chapter recounts the author's expulsion from Sacrifice. The author's research was divided into three stages: approach, entry, and departure. During the approach stage, the author became friendly with some important Sacrifice militants after taking out a membership at a gym that they own. During the entry stage, the author played the part of a militant day in and day out, including weekends. This stage ended with the author's expulsion from the group and an explicit warning not to approach any comrade in the future. The chapter then addresses the question of why the Sacrifice allowed a sociologist to live inside its militias as well as the reasons why the author decided to carry out ethnographic research into the Fascist world.Less
This concluding chapter recounts the author's expulsion from Sacrifice. The author's research was divided into three stages: approach, entry, and departure. During the approach stage, the author became friendly with some important Sacrifice militants after taking out a membership at a gym that they own. During the entry stage, the author played the part of a militant day in and day out, including weekends. This stage ended with the author's expulsion from the group and an explicit warning not to approach any comrade in the future. The chapter then addresses the question of why the Sacrifice allowed a sociologist to live inside its militias as well as the reasons why the author decided to carry out ethnographic research into the Fascist world.
Jeremy Tambling
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9789622098244
- eISBN:
- 9789882207158
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5790/hongkong/9789622098244.003.0006
- Subject:
- Literature, World Literature
Unlike A Call to Arms, there is no preface to Wandering (1926). Marston Anderson says that the heroes of many of this second group are “disappointed reformers.” The New-Year Sacrifice has in it a ...
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Unlike A Call to Arms, there is no preface to Wandering (1926). Marston Anderson says that the heroes of many of this second group are “disappointed reformers.” The New-Year Sacrifice has in it a sense of “blessing” or “benediction.” In the Tavern replays the issues of Hometown, in that the narrator has come back to his old town and finds himself talking to an old friend. The centre of A Happy Family is a writer who has been married for five years, motivated by cash constraints; Soap, satirising the family, focuses more on the impact of new social ideas and reaction against them. The Eternal Lamp and A Warning to the People deal with confinement and the crowd. The Venerable Schoolmaster Gao, which returns to some of the issues of education, discusses the making and unmaking of identity.Less
Unlike A Call to Arms, there is no preface to Wandering (1926). Marston Anderson says that the heroes of many of this second group are “disappointed reformers.” The New-Year Sacrifice has in it a sense of “blessing” or “benediction.” In the Tavern replays the issues of Hometown, in that the narrator has come back to his old town and finds himself talking to an old friend. The centre of A Happy Family is a writer who has been married for five years, motivated by cash constraints; Soap, satirising the family, focuses more on the impact of new social ideas and reaction against them. The Eternal Lamp and A Warning to the People deal with confinement and the crowd. The Venerable Schoolmaster Gao, which returns to some of the issues of education, discusses the making and unmaking of identity.
Alessandro Orsini
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781501709838
- eISBN:
- 9781501709630
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9781501709838.003.0001
- Subject:
- Political Science, European Union
This introductory chapter provides important information regarding the world of Sacrifice, a neofascist organization. Sacrifice supports revolutionary Fascism, an initial stage in which paramilitary ...
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This introductory chapter provides important information regarding the world of Sacrifice, a neofascist organization. Sacrifice supports revolutionary Fascism, an initial stage in which paramilitary groups known as action squads carried out violent acts. Besides being a political movement, Sacrifice is also a cultural organization with the goal of teaching young people to love Fascism, demonstrated through absolute loyalty to the militia and submission to its leaders. Indeed, the first rule of Sacrifice is that the group is more important than the individual. Those who do not respect this rule can be expelled on the basis of a decision reached by a specified number of leaders. Sacrifice also asks its new recruits to read particular books; its leaders organize a weekly meeting to see if the young people have understood what they are reading. Ultimately, the Sacrifice militants are planning to combat bourgeois democracy from the inside, as Hitler and Mussolini did.Less
This introductory chapter provides important information regarding the world of Sacrifice, a neofascist organization. Sacrifice supports revolutionary Fascism, an initial stage in which paramilitary groups known as action squads carried out violent acts. Besides being a political movement, Sacrifice is also a cultural organization with the goal of teaching young people to love Fascism, demonstrated through absolute loyalty to the militia and submission to its leaders. Indeed, the first rule of Sacrifice is that the group is more important than the individual. Those who do not respect this rule can be expelled on the basis of a decision reached by a specified number of leaders. Sacrifice also asks its new recruits to read particular books; its leaders organize a weekly meeting to see if the young people have understood what they are reading. Ultimately, the Sacrifice militants are planning to combat bourgeois democracy from the inside, as Hitler and Mussolini did.
Alessandro Orsini
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781501709838
- eISBN:
- 9781501709630
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9781501709838.003.0002
- Subject:
- Political Science, European Union
This chapter discusses Sacrifice's spiritual education. Fascist mysticism promotes a number of values, including love of family, loyalty to friends, fairness in sports competitions, solidarity with ...
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This chapter discusses Sacrifice's spiritual education. Fascist mysticism promotes a number of values, including love of family, loyalty to friends, fairness in sports competitions, solidarity with the poor, love for Italy, voluntary service, and physical exercise. These values, however, can be considered “secondary.” There are three primary values in revolutionary Fascism. The first value is the courage one demonstrates by accepting or provoking fights with the enemy. The second value is sacrifice: fighting even though one knows he cannot win. The third value is honor, which Sacrifice comrades consider a consequence of courage and sacrifice. The greater the willingness of Sacrifice comrades to fight against a stronger enemy, the greater the honor. The chapter then describes the books that the Lenintown and Mussolinia militia members read. Everyone agrees that the books of Niccolò Giani, Léon Degrelle, Julius Evola, and Corneliu Condreanu are fundamental for entering the mental universe of the Sacrifice militants.Less
This chapter discusses Sacrifice's spiritual education. Fascist mysticism promotes a number of values, including love of family, loyalty to friends, fairness in sports competitions, solidarity with the poor, love for Italy, voluntary service, and physical exercise. These values, however, can be considered “secondary.” There are three primary values in revolutionary Fascism. The first value is the courage one demonstrates by accepting or provoking fights with the enemy. The second value is sacrifice: fighting even though one knows he cannot win. The third value is honor, which Sacrifice comrades consider a consequence of courage and sacrifice. The greater the willingness of Sacrifice comrades to fight against a stronger enemy, the greater the honor. The chapter then describes the books that the Lenintown and Mussolinia militia members read. Everyone agrees that the books of Niccolò Giani, Léon Degrelle, Julius Evola, and Corneliu Condreanu are fundamental for entering the mental universe of the Sacrifice militants.
Alessandro Orsini
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781501709838
- eISBN:
- 9781501709630
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9781501709838.003.0005
- Subject:
- Political Science, European Union
This chapter deals with what the Sacrifice comrades think of what others think of them. The leader of a Sacrifice cell confirmed that the comrades were fully aware of the contempt in which people ...
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This chapter deals with what the Sacrifice comrades think of what others think of them. The leader of a Sacrifice cell confirmed that the comrades were fully aware of the contempt in which people held them. The Sacrifice militants have to face contempt not only of strangers but also, in some cases, of their family. There are five categories of insults against the Sacrifice militants. The first category is prompted by the idea that the Sacrifice comrades are “social misfits” seeking a group of people like themselves. The second category is prompted by the idea that the militants are by nature violent people. The third category is based on the idea that the comrades are ignorant of the history of Fascism because they have a very low IQ. The fourth category is prompted by the idea that Sacrifice militants are people with serious psychological disturbances. The fifth category includes insults that do not express any anthropological concept.Less
This chapter deals with what the Sacrifice comrades think of what others think of them. The leader of a Sacrifice cell confirmed that the comrades were fully aware of the contempt in which people held them. The Sacrifice militants have to face contempt not only of strangers but also, in some cases, of their family. There are five categories of insults against the Sacrifice militants. The first category is prompted by the idea that the Sacrifice comrades are “social misfits” seeking a group of people like themselves. The second category is prompted by the idea that the militants are by nature violent people. The third category is based on the idea that the comrades are ignorant of the history of Fascism because they have a very low IQ. The fourth category is prompted by the idea that Sacrifice militants are people with serious psychological disturbances. The fifth category includes insults that do not express any anthropological concept.
Alessandro Orsini
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781501709838
- eISBN:
- 9781501709630
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9781501709838.003.0008
- Subject:
- Political Science, European Union
This chapter argues that daily life in the parallel world is typified not by “soldiers who fight,” but by “soldiers who don't fight.” To escape the bourgeois society, Sacrifice militants try to ...
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This chapter argues that daily life in the parallel world is typified not by “soldiers who fight,” but by “soldiers who don't fight.” To escape the bourgeois society, Sacrifice militants try to construct a social order in which they are courageous soldiers. Yet most Sacrifice members know nothing about fighting. The question is this: how can militants who do not participate in street brawls and who do not fight in the MMA cage matches prove they are real soldiers? The clashes that result in police investigations and arrests offer the chance to all militants, even those who do not know how to fight, to sacrifice themselves for the militia, just as ancient Roman legionnaires did. Sacrifice members have copied not only the legionnaires' form of greeting but also the idea that the militia is a sacred place. Indeed, according to Sacrifice comrades, “the true soldier is someone who loves the militia.”Less
This chapter argues that daily life in the parallel world is typified not by “soldiers who fight,” but by “soldiers who don't fight.” To escape the bourgeois society, Sacrifice militants try to construct a social order in which they are courageous soldiers. Yet most Sacrifice members know nothing about fighting. The question is this: how can militants who do not participate in street brawls and who do not fight in the MMA cage matches prove they are real soldiers? The clashes that result in police investigations and arrests offer the chance to all militants, even those who do not know how to fight, to sacrifice themselves for the militia, just as ancient Roman legionnaires did. Sacrifice members have copied not only the legionnaires' form of greeting but also the idea that the militia is a sacred place. Indeed, according to Sacrifice comrades, “the true soldier is someone who loves the militia.”
Michael Naas
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780823239979
- eISBN:
- 9780823240012
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823239979.003.0009
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion
This chapter looks at Derrida’s contention that religion’s attempt to indemnify a relationship to the holy or the sacrosanct takes the form of an absolute respect for life that sometimes requires a ...
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This chapter looks at Derrida’s contention that religion’s attempt to indemnify a relationship to the holy or the sacrosanct takes the form of an absolute respect for life that sometimes requires a sacrifice of the living in the name of a life more valuable than life itself. This then leads to the question of sexual difference and sexual violence in religion, to all the attempts to indemnify the living body—and often the female body—by protecting or safeguarding it or else, for this is the other side of the same logic, scarifying or sacrificing it. According to the autoimmune logic that has been developed throughout this book, religion often attacks the very things it wants to safeguard and protect. What Derrida calls “the sexual thing” is not just one place among others to see this logic at work. It is for this reason that Derrida constantly reminds us in “Faith and Knowledge” that in today’s “wars of religion” women are often the principal victims of violence, oftentimes by sexual assault or mutilation.Less
This chapter looks at Derrida’s contention that religion’s attempt to indemnify a relationship to the holy or the sacrosanct takes the form of an absolute respect for life that sometimes requires a sacrifice of the living in the name of a life more valuable than life itself. This then leads to the question of sexual difference and sexual violence in religion, to all the attempts to indemnify the living body—and often the female body—by protecting or safeguarding it or else, for this is the other side of the same logic, scarifying or sacrificing it. According to the autoimmune logic that has been developed throughout this book, religion often attacks the very things it wants to safeguard and protect. What Derrida calls “the sexual thing” is not just one place among others to see this logic at work. It is for this reason that Derrida constantly reminds us in “Faith and Knowledge” that in today’s “wars of religion” women are often the principal victims of violence, oftentimes by sexual assault or mutilation.
Gerald Moore
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748642021
- eISBN:
- 9780748671861
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748642021.003.0002
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Political Philosophy
Chapter 1 opens through a discussion of Mauss's more explicit héritiers, Claude Lévi-Strauss and Georges Bataille, as two principal, albeit highly different proponents of new forms of knowledge ...
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Chapter 1 opens through a discussion of Mauss's more explicit héritiers, Claude Lévi-Strauss and Georges Bataille, as two principal, albeit highly different proponents of new forms of knowledge deemed irreducible to the broader concerns and remit of institutional philosophy. The main focus of the chapter is on Jacques Lacan. Drawing extensively on the historical background Lévi-Strauss, Hegel-Kojève, Freud and Bataille, the chapter is structured around the idea that the gift features extensively in the formation of each of the three registers of Lacan's pre-ontology: the symbolic ‘gift of speech’ of the earlier, more structuralist Lacan; the sacrificial gift of love in the imaginary; and, in the later, more Bataillean, Lacan, the traumatic ‘gift of shit’, the eternal return of a real that ungrounds the subject. Through sustained readings of many of Lacan's most important works, including the “Rome Discourse” and Seminars VII and XI, plus a range of responses from Boothby and Miller, Borch-Jakobsen, Žižek and Zupančič, we see that the work of Lacan is exemplary of the shift from more empirical understandings of gifts and exchange toward an increasingly abstract, theoretical conception of giving as an event that cannot be incorporated within the economic sphere of the traditionally-conceived subject.Less
Chapter 1 opens through a discussion of Mauss's more explicit héritiers, Claude Lévi-Strauss and Georges Bataille, as two principal, albeit highly different proponents of new forms of knowledge deemed irreducible to the broader concerns and remit of institutional philosophy. The main focus of the chapter is on Jacques Lacan. Drawing extensively on the historical background Lévi-Strauss, Hegel-Kojève, Freud and Bataille, the chapter is structured around the idea that the gift features extensively in the formation of each of the three registers of Lacan's pre-ontology: the symbolic ‘gift of speech’ of the earlier, more structuralist Lacan; the sacrificial gift of love in the imaginary; and, in the later, more Bataillean, Lacan, the traumatic ‘gift of shit’, the eternal return of a real that ungrounds the subject. Through sustained readings of many of Lacan's most important works, including the “Rome Discourse” and Seminars VII and XI, plus a range of responses from Boothby and Miller, Borch-Jakobsen, Žižek and Zupančič, we see that the work of Lacan is exemplary of the shift from more empirical understandings of gifts and exchange toward an increasingly abstract, theoretical conception of giving as an event that cannot be incorporated within the economic sphere of the traditionally-conceived subject.
Gerald Moore
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748642021
- eISBN:
- 9780748671861
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748642021.003.0005
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Political Philosophy
The book's final and most important chapter returns to the question of sacrifice, reposed through Derrida and Badiou in a way that shows how philosophers have gone simultaneously too far and not far ...
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The book's final and most important chapter returns to the question of sacrifice, reposed through Derrida and Badiou in a way that shows how philosophers have gone simultaneously too far and not far enough in breaking with the philosophical tradition. Disdainful of the sacrifice seen by Hegel and Heidegger to incarnate the State, the sublime moment in which we fully receive the gift of the event, Nancy goes so far as to reject a link between sacrifice and politics. The impossible offering of existence means precisely that there can be no sacrifice, no privileged means through which to grasp and instantiate the event in the present. But this is to presuppose a pre-deconstructive concept of sacrifice, namely one that seeks to gain access to a privileged and transcendent ground. Returning not just to Derrida, but to Alain Badiou's critique of the ‘apolitical’ Deleuze, it is argued that sacrifice lies at the heart of politics, as another name for decisions that cannot simply be sublated by philosophy. Illustrative of the underlying sacrificial structure of politics is democracy, which consists above all in the impossible attempt to negotiate without pretence to sublation or a redemptive experience of political grace.Less
The book's final and most important chapter returns to the question of sacrifice, reposed through Derrida and Badiou in a way that shows how philosophers have gone simultaneously too far and not far enough in breaking with the philosophical tradition. Disdainful of the sacrifice seen by Hegel and Heidegger to incarnate the State, the sublime moment in which we fully receive the gift of the event, Nancy goes so far as to reject a link between sacrifice and politics. The impossible offering of existence means precisely that there can be no sacrifice, no privileged means through which to grasp and instantiate the event in the present. But this is to presuppose a pre-deconstructive concept of sacrifice, namely one that seeks to gain access to a privileged and transcendent ground. Returning not just to Derrida, but to Alain Badiou's critique of the ‘apolitical’ Deleuze, it is argued that sacrifice lies at the heart of politics, as another name for decisions that cannot simply be sublated by philosophy. Illustrative of the underlying sacrificial structure of politics is democracy, which consists above all in the impossible attempt to negotiate without pretence to sublation or a redemptive experience of political grace.
Simon Morrison
- Published in print:
- 2002
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520229433
- eISBN:
- 9780520927261
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520229433.003.0004
- Subject:
- Music, History, Western
The 1905 seminal work by Valeriy Bryusov, the virtual founder of the Russian Symbolist Movement, “The Holy Sacrifice,” captures the spirit of the Symbolist quest to free art from utilitarian aims and ...
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The 1905 seminal work by Valeriy Bryusov, the virtual founder of the Russian Symbolist Movement, “The Holy Sacrifice,” captures the spirit of the Symbolist quest to free art from utilitarian aims and to fuse art and life. The flow hence inferred that the Symbolists should ideally become subject of their own works and should in effect live them out. Conservative enough to fall short of such a manifest practice, Bryusov left this task to the hands of the “mystic” school, which sought to form a bridge between art and real life. Alexander Scriabin represented the mystical strain, which took this practice to an extreme, experimenting with narcotics, attending séances, etc. Scraibin's Mysterium, originally intended to be a Wagnerian opera, eventually embraced all elements reflective of this mystic school— the scripture, philosophies of Nietzsche and Schopenhauer, the ecumenical religious thought of Vladimir Solovyov, etc.Less
The 1905 seminal work by Valeriy Bryusov, the virtual founder of the Russian Symbolist Movement, “The Holy Sacrifice,” captures the spirit of the Symbolist quest to free art from utilitarian aims and to fuse art and life. The flow hence inferred that the Symbolists should ideally become subject of their own works and should in effect live them out. Conservative enough to fall short of such a manifest practice, Bryusov left this task to the hands of the “mystic” school, which sought to form a bridge between art and real life. Alexander Scriabin represented the mystical strain, which took this practice to an extreme, experimenting with narcotics, attending séances, etc. Scraibin's Mysterium, originally intended to be a Wagnerian opera, eventually embraced all elements reflective of this mystic school— the scripture, philosophies of Nietzsche and Schopenhauer, the ecumenical religious thought of Vladimir Solovyov, etc.
Bernhard Siegert
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- September 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780823263752
- eISBN:
- 9780823268962
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823263752.003.0003
- Subject:
- Information Science, Communications
This chapter investigates the cultural techniques that constitute the shared meal as a ritual of community founding (for which the Last Supper provides the model for Christian-occidental culture). ...
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This chapter investigates the cultural techniques that constitute the shared meal as a ritual of community founding (for which the Last Supper provides the model for Christian-occidental culture). The Last Supper generates signs on the metonymic axis of sharing and partitioning by creating the community as a symbolon, whereas on the metaphoric axis of substitution the host stands in for humans and/or god, and the man-god stands in for the sacrificed animal. The question of how culture is rooted in acts of communal eating thus always points to the question of how the materiality of food intake can be transcended. But if—following Hegel—sharing the meal is not a conventional sign but a symbol in the real, then the symbol that creates community has to be filtered from the material circulation of the food by technical means that produce first of all the distinction between those who eat and that which is eaten. Because the sign is contaminated with the channel, the symbolic with the real, cultural techniques such as cutlery, tableware, and table manners are necessary to enact the procedure of symbol generation in the real, and to prevent anthropophagy. The transcendence of matter requires, first and foremost, the right technology.Less
This chapter investigates the cultural techniques that constitute the shared meal as a ritual of community founding (for which the Last Supper provides the model for Christian-occidental culture). The Last Supper generates signs on the metonymic axis of sharing and partitioning by creating the community as a symbolon, whereas on the metaphoric axis of substitution the host stands in for humans and/or god, and the man-god stands in for the sacrificed animal. The question of how culture is rooted in acts of communal eating thus always points to the question of how the materiality of food intake can be transcended. But if—following Hegel—sharing the meal is not a conventional sign but a symbol in the real, then the symbol that creates community has to be filtered from the material circulation of the food by technical means that produce first of all the distinction between those who eat and that which is eaten. Because the sign is contaminated with the channel, the symbolic with the real, cultural techniques such as cutlery, tableware, and table manners are necessary to enact the procedure of symbol generation in the real, and to prevent anthropophagy. The transcendence of matter requires, first and foremost, the right technology.
