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...Rodrigo Karmy Bolton This article argues that martyrdom carries with it a destituent power. To this end, it examines the difference between martyrdom and sacrifice in five sections. The first four discuss sacrifice in French anthropology; Bataille's proposal of an “unemployed negativity...

... of California presented a radical challenge not only to the UC administration's rhetoric of sacrifice and shared pain, but also to debt's logic of deferred inevitability. It closes by suggesting new forms that organizing might take at the UC and nationally, if we are to confront the crisis of rising student...

... are humility, honesty, co­ operativeness, self-sacrifice, integrity. The peculiarly dull literary style of scientific reports reflects the humility demanded of scientists. There must be no showmanship, no star billing, not even personal pronouns. There must be elaborate presentation of the limitations...

....  Monday [January Khaira. Kondu Gond. At the time of preach- ing, I saw a kid which was intended for sacrifice. I explained to him the object of sacrifice in ancient times and that he was right to offer a kid to appease his god for his sins but it was a symbol of Jesus Christ who...

... of Suicide Bombing . Trans. Ragg-Kirkby Helena . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press . Sprinzak Ehud . 2000 . “ Rational Fanatics .” Foreign Policy , no. 120 : 66 – 73 . doi:10.2307/1149715 . Strenski Ivan . 2003 . “ Sacrifice, Gift, and the Social Logic of Muslim...

... the willful destruction of property in the Northwest Coastal First Nations practice of the potlatch and of Aztec human sacrifice to the sun as complex forms of energy expenditure and key instances of solarity in operation (1991). In his analysis of this text, Jean Bau- drillard makes the important point...

... the question of Herbert s original­ ity. In his Seven Types 0/ Ambiguity, William Empson devotes nine pages to Herbert s The Sacrifice, a long poem dramatizing the Pas­ sion (O all ye who passe by, behold and see). Empson finds the poem original, unique, unique as achieved by successive fireworks...

... emotions are released, what struggles for power and wars are waged, what injustices are done, what sacrifices are futilely made, all because of the conflict of differing ideas, educations, and religions, each separate proponent of which is positive in the belief that his is the true and only way...

... them from participating in the new cult and because in the procedures of the persecution sacrifice to, or even an oath by, the genius of the emperor or the gods was sufficient to escape punishment, some careful students have concluded that failure to render honor to the gods of Rome was interpreted...

... of Northern cities as types of ideal Americans, stainless in character, heroic in self-sacrifice, following duty with unshrinking loyalty and at an immense cost; and statues will be erected in Southern cities to Lincoln, the man of largest and tenderest heart whom the great crisis brought to the front...

... scapegoating of an arbitrarily selected enemy or victim whose exclusion from the order of the living ( friends, tribal order) provides the foundation or fun­ dament of that order, its false sense of transcendence, and the source of universal religious sacrifice.1 I should explain that the first pun in my...

... with the eyes of laughter. Degeneration, if it had ever tainted the souls of these young men, was arrested and purged away. Hunger, thirst, cold, rain, suffering and death, brought them spiritual opportunity. Instances of sacrifice even more altruistic because with­ out the patriotic motive, are supplied...

... sacrifices for it. Therefore, it may perfectly well serve as the efficient motive of social coherence. True, such a motive creates a regiment rather than a society, as we understand the word; but a racial regiment is, sociologically speaking, a viable form of society. There is no sociological reason...

... a complex interaction between demands for power, for recognition, and for the end of sacrifice in any concrete situation. At their limit, however, the three definitions are incompatible, and in their mutual excess, they organize something like an aporia of the political. Politics would finally...

... to the rhetorical tradi­ tion. This book, then, revolves around the question of Herbert s original­ ity. In his Seven Types 0/ Ambiguity, William Empson devotes nine pages to Herbert s The Sacrifice, a long poem dramatizing the Pas­ sion (O all ye who passe by, behold and see). Empson finds the poem original...

... annihilation is more debilitating than the prospect of such a disaster. The effect is to make man, including the writer, forget the problems of the spirit and the fact that man has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance. The writer loses sight of the old verities and truths...

... know quite well, this relationship can entail a considerable sacrifice of time and energy, and much patience, on the part ofthe teacher in hopes of inducing some sort of insight that may be resisted or accepted, readily or grudgingly, by the student. Moreover, it is only as the student extends his...

... with large incomes could spare one-third or one-half of the total and still have left much more than a minimum of subsistence, but few of us realize the sacrifice involved for the great majority of families of this country, for their incomes are considerably less than $1,000 a year. For many of them it means...

... back from no sacrifice, however appalling, in order that the world may not revert to lawlessness; that the world may be saved for free peoples. Will history uphold us in our view of this supreme crisis ? If in the eyes of the German General Staff military necessity is really supreme over every other...

... the SS began its terror, murdering instead of waging war and debauching the honor of the victor and the uniform of the soldier. The higher-ups needed that. They wanted to wipe the slate clean in Poland; and they confidently felt it was hardly to be expected that Britain would sacrifice a single...