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On Evil - Couverture souple

Eagleton, Terry

 
9780300171259: On Evil
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0300171250 ISBN 13 : 9780300171259
Editeur : Yale University Press, 2011

Synopsis

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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À propos de l'auteur

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.

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Éditeur
Yale University Press
Date d'édition
2011
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0300171250
ISBN 13 
9780300171259
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
176
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