Sacrifice in the Modern World: On the Particularity and Generality of Nazi Myth

"This is an extremely exciting manuscript - path-breaking, bold, and comprehensive - that could be received in the intellectual world as a major theoretical statement, while also representing an insightful treatment of a specific cultural historical moment (Nazi Germany) but also key intellectual lineages that surround it. There's a lot at stake here, in the big picture (the question of sacrifice and the interpretation of Germany) as well as in the many rich building blocks of the argument (the treatments of Kant, Nietzsche, Adorno, Bataille, Girard, etc.)."--Project Muse

Violence and culture: the sublime from Kant to Adorno -- The politics of myth in the Nazi period: Alfred Baeumler and Carl Einstein -- Theories of sacrifice in the modern world: Georges Bataille, Rene Girard, and Walter Burkert -- The genealogy of Nazi morality