Can We Do Away with Sacrifice?

Georges Bataille ,The Accursed Share, vol. 1, trans. Robert Hurley New York: Urzone, 1989); and Georges Bataille, The Accursed Share, vols. 2 and 3, trans. Robert Hurley (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1992).

See Melissa Ptacek, “French Sacrifice: Violence and the Sacred in the Thought of Emile Durkheim and Georges Bataille” (Ph.D. diss. University of California, Berkeley; Berkeley, CA: ProQuest, 2006).

Giorgio Agamben ,Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1998).

Giorgio Agamben , State of Exception, trans. Kevin Attell (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005).

Walter Benjamin , The Origin of German Tragic Drama, trans. John Osbourne (London: Verso, 1977).