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A trenchant analysis of sacrifice as the foundation of the modern, as well as the ancient, social order The modern conception of sacrifice is at once cast as a victory of self-discipline over desire and condescended to as destructive and archaic abnegation. But even in the Old Testament, the dual natures of sacrifice, embodying both ritual slaughter and moral rectitude, were at odds. In this analysis, Terry Eagleton makes a compelling argument that the idea of sacrifice has long been misunderstood.   Pursuing the complex lineage of sacrifice in a lyrical discourse, Eagleton focuses on the Old and New Testaments, offering a virtuosic analysis of the crucifixion, while drawing together a host of philosophers, theologians, and texts-from Hegel, Nietzsche, and Derrida to the Aeneid and The Wings of the Dove. Brilliant meditations on death and eros, Shakespeare and St. Paul, irony and hybridity explore the meaning of sacrifice in modernity, casting off misperceptions of barbarity to reconnect the radical idea to politics and revolution.

This book chronicles the story of the death fast struggle in Turkey while examining it from the angle of self-destructive practices. One of the most common explanations regarding these self-destructive forms of political struggle states that the weaponization of life, such as self-sacrifice in the name of God, is pursued in order to achieve martyrdom. Another explanation addresses the individual psychology, where the reasons for such actions can be attributed to post-traumatic disorders, depression, and personal pathologies. The book builds upon a Foucauldian stance, particularly Michel Foucault's dual thesis on how life becomes an object of regulation and how death falls from the scope of the political due to the emergence of biopolitics. The growing prevalence of utilizing human weapons, or necroresistance, is structured not only by the biopolitical valorization of life but also by the ongoing presence of the sovereign power of life and death.