Holy Terror Quotes

“On the whole, however, modernity has regarded the self as too precious to be abandoned. If sacrifice blurs the bounds between life and death, conditions which most pre-modern cultures know to be on the most intimate of terms with each other, the modern will enforces an absolute distinction between them. Modernity regards self-dispossession as the enemy of self-realization, not as its vital precondition, and so tends to buy its self-realization on the cheap. Postmodernity is equally sceptical of sacrifice, largely because it is uncertain that there is enough of a self to be relinquished in the first place.”
― Terry Eagleton, Holy Terror