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Radical Sacrifice: Terry Eagleton and Daniel Soar

London Review Bookshop Podcast

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Sacrificing Yourself for a Cause

Author argues that only through a kind of breaking and remaking, if you like, can an authentic life be lived. The word sacrifice means to make sacred, to make something sacred in pre modern thought. It's a power which can destroy, and which can also renew, which can also transform. You are dealing with true power, but a power which is only available through radical self dispossession.

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