7 Deadly Sins: A Very Partial List - Brossura

Kleinberg, Aviad M.

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ISBN 10: 0674057325 ISBN 13: 9780674057326

Casa editrice: Belknap Pr, 2010

Riassunto

There is no society without right and wrong. There is no society without sin. But every culture has its own favorite list of trespasses. Perhaps the most influential of these was drawn up by the Church in late antiquity: the Seven Deadly Sins. Pride, sloth, gluttony, envy, anger, lust, and greed are not forbidden acts but the passions that lead us into temptation. Aviad Kleinberg, one of the most prominent public intellectuals in Israel, examines the arts of sinning and of finger pointing. What is wrong with a little sloth? Where would haute cuisine be without gluttony? Where would we all be without our parents’ lust? Has anger really gone out of style in the West? Can consumer culture survive without envy and greed? And with all humility, why shouldn’t we be proud?

With intellectual insight and deadpan humor, Kleinberg deftly guides the reader through Jewish, Christian, and Greco-Roman thoughts on sin. Each chapter weaves the past into the present and examines unchanging human passions and the deep cultural shifts in the way we make sense of them. Seven Deadly Sins is a compassionate, original, and witty look at the stuff that makes us human.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Aviad Kleinberg is Professor of History at Tel Aviv University and the author of Prophets in Their Own Country: Living Saints and the Making of Sainthood in the Later Middle Ages.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Belknap Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0674057325
• ISBN 13: 9780674057326
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 192
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• Persona responsabile: non disponibile