02429nam 22006014a 450 991045830220332120200520144314.01-280-75617-90-19-151602-31-4294-2192-4(CKB)1000000000403376(EBL)422561(OCoLC)476258009(SSID)ssj0000083137(PQKBManifestationID)11110799(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000083137(PQKBWorkID)10145998(PQKB)10464393(MiAaPQ)EBC422561(Au-PeEL)EBL422561(CaPaEBR)ebr10233682(CaONFJC)MIL75617(EXLCZ)99100000000040337620050711d2005 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrHoly terror[electronic resource] /Terry EagletonOxford ;New York Oxford University Press20051 online resource (159 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-928717-1 Includes bibliographical references (p. [141]-144) and index.Invitation to an orgy -- States of sublimity -- Fear and freedom -- Saints and suicides -- The living dead -- Scapegoats.This short but profound study sets the idea and ideology of 'terror' in a richly historical, metaphysical, theological, and literary context. Terry Eagleton traces a genealogy from ancient rites and rituals, as notably articulated in classical drama, through medieval theology and the eighteenth-century sublime, to the Freudian unconscious. - ;Holy Terror is a profound and timely investigation of the idea of terror, drawing upon political, philosophical, literary, and theological sources to trace a genealogy from the ancient world to the modern day. Rather than add to the mounting pile of politTerrorismReligious aspectsViolenceReligious aspectsTerrorElectronic books.TerrorismReligious aspects.ViolenceReligious aspects.Terror.201/.7Eagleton Terry1943-123654MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910458302203321Holy terror992499UNINA