Secularity as Sacrifice. Notes on the Dialectical Logic in Modernity and its Monotheistic Prefigurations
In religious studies, sacrifice is usually considered as a type of rituality. In this article, to this approach a cultural-philosophical investigation is added. Can sacrifice be analyzed as ageneral logic underlying Western culture? Theauthor proposes to analyze dialectics as a “movement” typical of...
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| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Brill
[2015]
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Interdisciplinary journal for religion and transformation in contemporary society
Jahr: 2015, Band: 1, Heft: 1, Seiten: 22-45 |
| normierte Schlagwort(-folgen): | B
Westliche Welt
/ Monotheismus
/ Opferritus
/ Säkularismus
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| RelBib Classification: | AB Religionsphilosophie; Religionskritik; Atheismus AG Religiöses Leben; materielle Religion CH Christentum und Gesellschaft |
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| Zusammenfassung: | In religious studies, sacrifice is usually considered as a type of rituality. In this article, to this approach a cultural-philosophical investigation is added. Can sacrifice be analyzed as ageneral logic underlying Western culture? Theauthor proposes to analyze dialectics as a “movement” typical of Western self-understanding, rooted in sacrifice. Next to examples from Judaism and Christianity, Hegelos secular phenomenology of human life will be the focus here. In dialogue with Jean-Luc Nancy, the consequences of this analysis will be developed. If dialectics is sacrificial, secular modernity is connected in an intricate way with the monotheistic legacy: secularization starts well before modernity.Western history has brought about a transformation of sacrifice in which it is no longer confined within religious practice, but expanded to human “secular” life. |
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| ISSN: | 2364-2807 |
| Enthält: | Enthalten in: Interdisciplinary journal for religion and transformation in contemporary society
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.14220/jrat.2015.1.1.22 |