On Evil - Hardcover

Eagleton, Terry

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0300151063 ISBN 13: 9780300151060

Verlag: Yale University Press, 2010

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Book by Eagleton Terry

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"On Evil belongs to the genre of religious psychology, where Eagleton brilliantly relates the ultimate concerns of the theologian with the penultimate concerns of the psychoanalyst. Without the former, the result would be a study of human discontent; without the latter, a retreat into papier-mache piety. Here, Aquinas meets Freud--enriching our reflections on the nature and manifestations of evil."--Christopher Benson, Christianity Today -- Christopher Benson * Christianity Today * "Jaunty and surprisingly entertaining. . .[Eagleton's] argument is subtle, intricate, provocative and limpidly expressed. . . . A valuable contribution to a debate as old as Adam and Eve and as contemporary as 9/11 and Abu Ghraib." - John Banville, Irish Times -- John Banville * Irish Times * "An absorbing, stimulating, awfully entertaining discussion."--Ray Olson, Booklist -- Ray Olson * Booklist * "Terry Eagleton's Reason, Faith, and Revolution attacks the new atheism as a kind of secular counter-fundamentalism... Better than any previous book of its kind."-James Wood, The New Yorker -- James Wood * New Yorker *

Reseña del editor:

An impassioned argument for the existence of evil from one of the most respected and influential critics of our day In this witty, accessible study, the prominent Marxist thinker Terry Eagleton launches a surprising defense of the reality of evil, drawing on literary, theological, and psychoanalytic sources to suggest that evil, no mere medieval artifact, is a real phenomenon with palpable force in our contemporary world. In a book that ranges from St. Augustine to alcoholism, Thomas Aquinas to Thomas Mann, Shakespeare to the Holocaust, Eagleton investigates the frightful plight of those doomed souls who apparently destroy for no reason. In the process, he poses a set of intriguing questions. Is evil really a kind of nothingness? Why should it appear so glamorous and seductive? Why does goodness seem so boring? Is it really possible for human beings to delight in destruction for no reason at all?

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• Verlag: Yale University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0300151063
• ISBN 13: 9780300151060
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 192