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For many enlightened, liberal-minded thinkers today, and for most on the political left, evil is an outmoded concept. It smacks too much of absolute judgments and metaphysical certainties to suit the modern age. 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? (From the publisher) + Περιεχόμενα Introduction Fictions of evil Obscene enjoyment Job's comforters Notes Index +
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Εκδότης
YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
ISBN
9780300171259
Τύπος
ΕΝΤΥΠΗ ΕΚΔΟΣΗ
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Συγγραφέας: EAGLETON TERRY

EAGLETON TERRY

Ο Τέρενς Φράνσις "Τέρι" Ίγκλετον [1943-], είναι επιφανής Βρετανός διανοούμενος, κριτικός και θεωρητικός της λογοτεχνίας Σήμερα είναι ομότιμος καθηγητής της Αγγλικής Λογοτεχνίας στο Πανεπιστήμιο του Λάνκαστερ, καθηγητής Θεωρίας του Πολιτισμού στο Εθνικό Πανεπιστήμιο της Ιρλανδίας και διακεκριμένος επισκέπτης καθηγητής Αγγλικής.