Radical Sacrifice

De: Terry Eagleton

Narrado por: Roger Clark

The modern conception of sacrifice is at once cast as a victory 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 odds. In this analysis, Terry Eagleton makes a compelling argument that the idea of sacrifice has long been misunderstood.

Pursuing the complex lineage of sacrifice in a lyrical discourse, Eagleton focuses on the Old and New Testaments, offering a virtuosic analysis of the crucifixion, while drawing together a host of philosophers, theologians, and texts - from Hegel, Nietzsche, and Derrida to The Aeneid and 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 revolution.

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Reseñas de la Crítica

"Our understanding of sacrifice, clearly, has evolved radically over the millennia, but the impulse to renounce and surrender oneself remain integral to the human experience. Eagleton draws on all those experiences, from the Old and New Testaments to Karl Marx via Harry Potter, to powerfully restate the case for an idea as old as humankind itself." (Marcus Tanner, author of Croatia and Albania's Mountain Queen)

Great book with decent narration

Eagleton's etiology of the concept of sacrifice is masterful -- several times per chapter I found myself being struck by the depth of his analysis. The only criticism I have is slight and has to do with the narrator; his narration is dynamic and engaging but I couldn't help being distracted by his mispronunciations of several important names/terms. Still, it's a thought-provoking listen and the mispronunciations on the part of the narrator are made up for by the otherwise high quality of his reading.