Sacrifice in the Modern World: On the Particularity and Generality of Nazi Myth

Contents

Contents Acknowledgments ix List of Abbreviations xi Introduction 3 Chapter One Violence and Culture: The Sublime from Kant to Adorno 13 Chapter Two The Politics of Myth in the Nazi Period: Alfred Baeumler and Carl Einstein 45 Chapter Three Theories of Sacrifice in the Modern World: Georges Bataille, René Girard, and Walter Burkert 79 Chapter Four The Genealogy of Nazi Morality 113 Conclusion 149 Notes 153 Index 163 ...