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Sacrifice in the modern world

Pan, David, 1963-

Sacrifice in the modern world on the particularity and generality of Nazi myth / [electronic resource] : David Pan. - Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, 2012. - 1 online resource (p. cm.) - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Violence and culture: the sublime from Kant to Adorno -- The politics of myth in the Nazi period: Alfred Baeumler and Carl Einstein -- Theories of sacrifice in the modern world: Georges Bataille, Rene Girard, and Walter Burkert -- The genealogy of Nazi morality.

9780810166035


National socialism--Moral and ethical aspects.
Mythology--Political aspects--History--Germany--20th century.
Violence--Social aspects.
Sacrifice--Social aspects--History--Germany--20th century.


Electronic books.

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