Sacrifice in the modern world: on the particularity and generality of Nazi myth

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter One - Violence and Culture: The Sublime from Kant to Adorno -- Chapter Two -The Politics of Myth in the Nazi Period: Alfred Baeumler and Carl Einstein -- Chapter Three - Theories of Sacrifice in the Modern World: Georges Bataille, René Girard, and Walter Burkert -- Chapter Four - The Genealogy of Nazi Morality -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index

"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