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This is a review essay on Jesse Goldhammer, The Headless Republic: Sacrificial Violence in Modern French Thought. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2005; and Dennis King Keenan, The Question of Sacrifice. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2005.
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Ptacek, M. Sacrificing sacrifice. Theor Soc 35, 587–600 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11186-006-9019-4
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