Melissa Ptacek
Biographic Data
| ID | 339880 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Melissa Ptacek |
| GIVEN NAMES | Melissa |
| FAMILY NAME | Ptacek |
| SIGNATURE | PTACEK M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Berkeley |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Durkheim's Two Theories of Sacrifice: Ritual, Social Change and Les Formes élémentaires de la vie religieuse
The article begins by examining Durkheim's editorial role in the creation of Hubert and Mauss's essay on sacrifice, published in his new journal, the Année sociologique, in 1899. It then brings out how, in Les Formes élémentaires de la vie religieuse, Durkheim operated both with an 'official' and a more or less 'hidden' theory of sacrifice, the first based on the approach in Hubert and Mauss's essay, the second rooted in Durkheim's earlier views …
Simone de Beauvoir's Algerian war: Torture and the Rejection of Ethics
Remarks on Sacrifice and Punishment
In this commentary, I explore affirmative responses to the question of whether the notion of sacrifice illuminates the nature of punitive acts such as executions and lynchings. In the end, however, I maintain that the notion of sacrifice is incompatible with such efforts and may serve more to obscure than to illuminate. Not only are key aspects of sacrifice overlooked in such analyses, but attention is diverted from the specific punitive violence…
Sacrificing sacrifice
Thresholds: Sovereignty and the Sacred
Giorgio Agamben, Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life. Translated by Daniel Heller-Roazen. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998. Pp. xii + 199 pages. $45.00 cloth; $16.95 paper. For the first time history, the possibilities of the social sciences are made known, and at once it becomes possible both to protect and to authorize a holocaust. -Michel Foucault qtd. Agamben (1998:3) Sacredness is a line of flight still present contemporary po…
Thresholds: Sovereignty and the Sacred
Giorgio Agamben, Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life. Translated by Daniel Heller-Roazen. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998. Pp. xii + 199 pages. $45.00 cloth; $16.95 paper. For the first time history, the possibilities of the social sciences are made known, and at once it becomes possible both to protect and to authorize a holocaust. -Michel Foucault qtd. Agamben (1998:3) Sacredness is a line of flight still present contemporary po…
Durkheim's Two Theories of Sacrifice: Ritual, Social Change and Les Formes élémentaires de la vie religieuse
The article begins by examining Durkheim's editorial role in the creation of Hubert and Mauss's essay on sacrifice, published in his new journal, the Année sociologique, in 1899. It then brings out how, in Les Formes élémentaires de la vie religieuse, Durkheim operated both with an 'official' and a more or less 'hidden' theory of sacrifice, the first based on the approach in Hubert and Mauss's essay, the second rooted in Durkheim's earlier views …
Simone de Beauvoir's Algerian war: Torture and the Rejection of Ethics
Sacrificing sacrifice
Thresholds: Sovereignty and the Sacred
Giorgio Agamben, Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life. Translated by Daniel Heller-Roazen. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998. Pp. xii + 199 pages. $45.00 cloth; $16.95 paper. For the first time history, the possibilities of the social sciences are made known, and at once it becomes possible both to protect and to authorize a holocaust. -Michel Foucault qtd. Agamben (1998:3) Sacredness is a line of flight still present contemporary po…
Sacrificing sacrifice
Remarks on Sacrifice and Punishment
In this commentary, I explore affirmative responses to the question of whether the notion of sacrifice illuminates the nature of punitive acts such as executions and lynchings. In the end, however, I maintain that the notion of sacrifice is incompatible with such efforts and may serve more to obscure than to illuminate. Not only are key aspects of sacrifice overlooked in such analyses, but attention is diverted from the specific punitive violence…
Durkheim's Two Theories of Sacrifice: Ritual, Social Change and Les Formes élémentaires de la vie religieuse
The article begins by examining Durkheim's editorial role in the creation of Hubert and Mauss's essay on sacrifice, published in his new journal, the Année sociologique, in 1899. It then brings out how, in Les Formes élémentaires de la vie religieuse, Durkheim operated both with an 'official' and a more or less 'hidden' theory of sacrifice, the first based on the approach in Hubert and Mauss's essay, the second rooted in Durkheim's earlier views …
Simone de Beauvoir's Algerian war: Torture and the Rejection of Ethics
Sociology (5 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sacrifice (3 works) · Theology (3 works) · Political Theology and Sovereignty (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Religious studies (2 works)