Sacrifice in the modern world : on the particularity and generality of Nazi myth

Author / Creator

Pan, David, 1963-

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"This is an extremely exciting manuscript - path-breaking, bold, and comprehensive - that could be received in the intellectual world as a major theoretical statement, while also representing an in...

"This is an extremely exciting manuscript - path-breaking, bold, and comprehensive - that could be received in the intellectual world as a major theoretical statement, while also representing an insightful treatment of a specific cultural historical moment (Nazi Germany) but also key intellectual lineages that surround it. There's a lot at stake here, in the big picture (the question of sacrifice and the interpretation of Germany) as well as in the many rich building blocks of the argument (the treatments of Kant, Nietzsche, Adorno, Bataille, Girard, etc.)."--Project Muse.

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