02577nam 2200601Ia 450 991078613890332120230725035244.01-299-46382-70-300-16296-010.12987/9780300162967(CKB)2670000000335032(StDuBDS)AH24393358(SSID)ssj0000860573(PQKBManifestationID)11519457(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000860573(PQKBWorkID)10898176(PQKB)11319724(MiAaPQ)EBC3421198(DE-B1597)485843(OCoLC)841171302(DE-B1597)9780300162967(Au-PeEL)EBL3421198(CaPaEBR)ebr10687950(CaONFJC)MIL477632(OCoLC)923603259(EXLCZ)99267000000033503220090929d2010 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtccrOn evil[electronic resource] /Terry EagletonNew Haven Yale University Pressc20101 online resource (128 p.)Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-300-15106-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --Contents --Introduction --1. Fictions Of Evil --2. Obscene Enjoyment --3. Job's Comforters --Notes --IndexIn 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?Good and evilEthicsGood and evil.Ethics.111/.84Eagleton Terry1943-123654MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910786138903321On evil3715323UNINA