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Contents Preface Introduction Part I: The Biological Scope of Infanticide and the Infanticidal 1. Existence Costs 2. The Infanticidal Horizon of Biological Evolution Part II: Infanticide and the Infanticidity of Being in Genesis 3. Infanticide and Reproduction in Genesis 4. Refusing the Infanticidal: Interpretive Closure in Teleological Readings of Abraham's Sacrifice 5. "The Most Common Event in the World": Abraham's Sacrifice and the Infanticidity of Being Part III: Counter-Conceiving the Symbolic Order--Infanticide and the Name of the Father 6. Counter-Conceiving the Law of the Father 7. Sacrifice, Revenge, and a Justice beyond Justice: The Odyssey 8. The Wounded Infant and the Infanticidism of the Gods: Oedipus' Cultural Critique 9. The Infanticidity of Flesh and Word: The Eucharistic Revision of Greek Sacrifice Part IV: The Inconceivable Future 10. Conceptions and Contraceptions of the Future: Star Trek, Terminator 2, The Matrix, and Alien Resurrection Notes Bibliography Index
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Infanticide -- History.
Infanticde -- Social aspects.
Infanticide -- Religious aspects.
Infanticide in literature.
Bible. O.T. Genesis -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Greek literature -- History and criticism.