Sacrifice in the modern world
Subtitle: on the particularity and generality of Nazi myth
By: David Pan
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Evanston, Ill
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780810128163
Subjects: Moral and ethical aspects; Mythology; National socialism; Sacrifice; Violence; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Violence and culture: the sublime from Kant to Adorno; title: The politics of myth in the Nazi period: Alfred Baeumler and Carl Einstein; title: Theories of sacrifice in the modern world: Georges Bataille, Rene Girard, and Walter Burkert; title: The genealogy of Nazi morality.