Topic: 3. Sacrifice and politics (16th-18th Century)
During the transformative period of the 16th to 18th centuries, the notion of the State evolved into a nearly mystical entity, perceived as immortal and worthy of the ultimate sacrifice. This section delves into the complex interplay between sovereignty, resistance, and sacrifice, a theme explored by early proponents of political tolerance. It also examines revolutionary acts and regicide, viewed through the lens of sacrificial rites. This section includes early modern printed and iconographic sources, along with a comprehensive bibliography from the 19th to 21st centuries, providing a historical and modern perspective on this complex theme
Iphigénie de la Grèce antique à l'Europe des Lumières
Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 1985.
The Headless RepublicSacrificial Violence in Modern French Thought
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2005.
Racine: From Ancient Myth to Tragic Modernity
Minneapolis - London: University of Minnesota Press, 2010.
Simulazione e autolesionismo. Dalla medicina civile a quella militare, tra Ottocento e Grande Guerra
in: Storica, v. 83/84 (2022), issue 28: pp.129-157.
Fruitful Death: Mircea Eliade and Ernst Jünger on Human Sacrifice, 1937–1945
in: Numen. International Review for the History of Religions, v. 52 (2005), issue 1: pp.116-145.
Fundamentalism and Terror. A Dialogue with Jürgen Habermas
in: Philosophy in a Time of Terror. Dialogues with Jürgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida, pp. 25-43
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2003.
On Sacrifice
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012.
Sacrificing the Sacrifices of War
in: Religion and Politics of Peace and Conflict, pp. 83-103
Princeton: Priceton Theological Monograph, 2009.
The Power of Sacrifice: Roman and Christian Discourses in Conflict
Washington, DC : The Catholic University of America Press, 2007.
Leviathan
Oxford : Oxford University Press, Clarendon Edition of the Works of Thomas Hobbes, 2012-2014.
Tyrannicide, the Oath of Allegiance Controversy, and the Assassination of Henry IV
in: Jesuit Political Thought: The Society of Jesus and the State, c. 1540-1630
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Tyrannie and tyrannicide selon Pierre Jurieu
in: Bulletin de la Société de l'histoire du protestantisme français, v. 152 (2006), issue 4: pp.583-609.
Dead Man's Treasure
in: The Production of English Renaissance Culture, pp. 190-224
Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1994.
Swordplay: Jacques-Louis David's Painting of Le Peletier de Saint-Fargaeu on His Deathbed
in: Representing the French Revolution: Literature, Historiograpy, Art
Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1992.
Fausto Sozzini, la teoria del sacrificio e il socinianesimo
in: Bruniana & Campanelliana, v. XXVII (2021), issue 1-2: pp.195-210.
Religione senza sacrificio. Grozio e Sozzini alle origini di un tema illuminista
in: Rivista Storica Italiana, v. 128 (), issue 2: pp.383-421.
Religione senza sacrificio. Grozio e Sozzini alle origini di un tema illuminista
in: Rivista Storica Italiana, v. 128 (), issue 2: pp.383-421.