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Philosophy and the End of Sacrifice: Disengaging Ritual in Ancient India, Greece and Beyond
Engelsk Paperback
Philosophy and the End of Sacrifice: Disengaging Ritual in Ancient India, Greece and Beyond
Engelsk Paperback

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This volume addresses the means and ends of sacrificial speculation by inviting a selected group of specialists in the fields of philosophy, history of religions, and indology to examine philosophical modes of sacrificial speculation-especially in Ancient India and Greece-and consider the commonalities of their historical raison d''etre. Scholars have long observed, yet without presenting any transcultural grand theory on the matter, that sacrifice seems to end with (or even continue as) philosophy in both Ancient India and Greece. How are we to understand this important transformation that so profoundly changed the way we think of religion (and philosophy as opposed to religion) today? Some of the complex topics inviting closer examination in this regard are the interiorisation of ritual, ascetism and self-sacrifice, sacrifice and cosmogony, the figure of the philosopher-sage, transformations and technologies of the self, analogical reasoning, the philosophy of ritual, vegetarianism, and metempsychosis.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
244
ISBN-13:
9781781791257
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1781791252
Udg. Dato:
11 feb 2016
Længde:
19mm
Bredde:
235mm
Højde:
158mm
Forlag:
Equinox Publishing Ltd
Oplagsdato:
11 feb 2016
Forfatter(e):
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