The political sacred and the holiness of life itself

This article reflects on Agamben’s formulation of the sacred within the political order of the West, contrasting this with the Durkheim/Bellah view of the sacred/profane opposition, and then presenting two arguments that reduction of the sacred to the political is insufficient, one a form of biologi...

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Main Author: Flood, G
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Routledge 2017