On Laughter and Other Sacrifices

Strobach, Natalie

doi:10.1080/0969725x.2013.804992

Angelaki

2013

DOI: 10.1080/0969725x.2013.804992

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On Laughter and Other Sacrifices

Natalie Strobach

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The Exposure of Violence: A Performative Reading of Sacrifice in Genesis 22 with Judith Butler and Giorgio Agamben

Breu

2022

J. Relig. Transf. Cont. Soc.

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The sacrificial story in Genesis 22:1–19, the Aqeda or “Binding of Isaac,” has generated a large body of research literature. This is due to its irresolvable ambiguity: God commands the sacrifice of Isaac and stops it. The reader is not informed about reasons or intentions of the characters involved. After analyzing some possible approaches to the text’s ambiguity, I offer a new performative reading of the passage with Giorgio Agamben’s and Judith Butler’s theories of gesture. I argue that this approach effectively deals with ambiguity, because it neither erases violence nor justifies it. It rather exposes violence by interrupting and redirecting it. Abraham’s raised hand with the knife thus becomes an interrupted gesture. It makes the text a monument to violence that teaches to see the same situation in a different light and to interrupt the continuous repetition of violent behaviour.

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The Exposure of Violence: A Performative Reading of Sacrifice in Genesis 22 with Judith Butler and Giorgio Agamben

Breu

2022

J. Relig. Transf. Cont. Soc.

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On Laughter and Other Sacrifices

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The Exposure of Violence: A Performative Reading of Sacrifice in Genesis 22 with Judith Butler and Giorgio Agamben

The Exposure of Violence: A Performative Reading of Sacrifice in Genesis 22 with Judith Butler and Giorgio Agamben

Conservation of frog habitats for land consolidation projects in paddy field areas

Fish breeding and conservation in traditional and land consolidated paddy water areas

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