Ecce Humanitas : : Beholding the Pain of Humanity / / Brad Evans.
The very idea of humanity seems to be in crisis. Born in the ashes of devastation after the slaughter of millions, the liberal conception of humanity imagined a suffering victim in need of salvation. Today, this figure appears less and less capable of galvanizing the political imagination. But witho...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2021] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Foreword: An Obituary for the Liberal
- Preface: Encountering the Void
- PART I: The Sacrifice
- Chapter 1. Humanity Bound
- Chapter 2. The Sacred Order of Politics
- Chapter 3. The Shame of Being Human
- PART II: The Fall of Liberal Humanism
- Chapter 4. A Higher State of Killing
- Chapter 5. The Death of the Victim
- Chapter 6. A Sickness of Reason
- PART III: Into the Void
- Chapter 7. Annihilation
- Chapter 8. The Transgressive Witness
- Chapter 9. Wounds of Love
- Notes
- Index