On Evil - Rilegato

Eagleton, Terry

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ISBN 10: 0300151063 ISBN 13: 9780300151060

Casa editrice: Yale Univ Pr, 2010

Riassunto

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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Recensione:

'I cannot recommend this book strongly enough.' --Prof. Lance Butler, Network Review (Scientific Medical Network), Winter 2009/2010

L'autore:

Terry Eagleton is currently Bailrigg Professor of English Literature at the University of Lancaster, England, and Professor of Cultural Theory at the National University of Ireland, Galway. He lives in Dublin.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Yale Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0300151063
• ISBN 13: 9780300151060
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 176