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4 - Sacrificial Community

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 October 2019

Joshua S. Nunziato
Joshua S. Nunziato
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University of Colorado Boulder
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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 Sacrifice
Ancient and Modern Perspectives
 , pp. 144 - 169
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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  • Sacrificial Community
  • Joshua S. Nunziato, University of Colorado Boulder
  • Book: Augustine and the Economy of Sacrifice
  • Online publication: 01 October 2019
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108630467.005
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  • Joshua S. Nunziato, University of Colorado Boulder
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  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108630467.005
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  • Sacrificial Community
  • Joshua S. Nunziato, University of Colorado Boulder
  • Book: Augustine and the Economy of Sacrifice
  • Online publication: 01 October 2019
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108630467.005
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