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4 - Sacrificial Community
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 October 2019
Summary
In exchange, my gain is my partner’s loss. And my loss is my partner’s gain. Or so it appears. Exchange seems to attach us firmly to the logic of ownership, possession, and dispossession, which the Augustinian economy of sacrifice is supposed to unsettle. Can exchange point us beyond these terms on which it appears to depend? If so, how will such references change the relationship between exchange partners?
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- Augustine and the Economy of SacrificeAncient and Modern Perspectives, pp. 144 - 169Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019