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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Format: | Journal article |
Language: | English |
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Routledge
2017
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