The Question of Sacrifice

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Contents acknowledgments / ix list of abbreviations / xi The Sacrifice of Sacrifice: Waiting without Hope / 1 1. A Genealogy of Theories of Sacrifice: A History of Economics, Sexism, and Christo-centric Evolutionism / 10 2. Kristeva: Mimesis and Sacrifice / 33 3. Bataille: The Hegelian Dialectic, Death, and Sacrifice / 45 4. Nietzsche: The Eternal Return of Sacrifice / 59 5. Levinas: On Resorting to the Ethical Language of Sacrifice / 74 6. Irigaray: The Sacrifice of the Sacrifice of Woman / 89 7. Lacan/Žižek: The Repetition of the Sacrifice of the Sacrifice as an Ethical Act / 105 8. Derrida: The Double Bind of Sacrifice / 134 9. Hegel at the Chiasm of Derrida and Lacan/Žižek / 160 10. The Sacrifice of the Eucharist / 174 bibliography / 189 index / 203 ...