The Endless Metamorphoses of Sacrifice and Its Clashing Narratives

This paper sets out (1) to provide an affirmative genealogy that shed light on the different forms taken by sacrifice, the origins of its various conceptual layers and the various social practices from which they come; (2) to analyze the initial conceptual layer proposed by Marcel Mauss and Henri Hubert and followed by Marcel Hénaff based on farming societies; (3) to analyze the rise of the anti-sacrificial narrative and its main landmarks, the problems of victims and the responses given by René Girard and Talcott Parsons; and finally (4) to analyze the dynamic tension between the tragic-apocalyptic narrative and the defensive-progressive narrative in modern times, and the main landmarks of each one

Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Conceptual framework · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Literature · Narrative · Sacrifice · Sociology · History · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Philosophy · Political Theology and Sovereignty · Violence, Religion, and Philosophy

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