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The modern conception of sacrifice is at once cast as a success of self-discipline over desire and condescended to as destructive and archaic abnegation. But even in the Old Testament, the dual natures of sacrifice, embodying both ritual slaughter and moral rectitude, were at chances. In this evaluation, Terry Eagleton makes a convincing argument that the idea of sacrifice is definitely misunderstood. Pursuing the complicated lineage of sacrifice in a lyrical discourse, Eagleton targets the Old and New Testaments, offering a virtuosic evaluation of the crucifixion, while sketching together a bunch of philosophers, theologians, and texts - from Hegel, Nietzsche, and Derrida for the Aeneid as well as the Wings of the Dove. Brilliant meditations on death and eros, Shakespeare and St. Paul, irony and hybridity explore the meaning of sacrifice in modernity, casting off misperceptions of barbarity to reconnect the radical idea to politics and trend.
