Holy terror [[electronic resource] /] / Terry Eagleton

• Autore: Eagleton Terry <1943->
• Pubblicazione: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2005
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (159 p.)
• Disciplina: 201/.7
• Soggetto topico: Terrorism - Religious aspects; Violence - Religious aspects; Terror
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [141]-144) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Invitation to an orgy -- States of sublimity -- Fear and freedom -- Saints and suicides -- The living dead -- Scapegoats.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 polit
• Titolo autorizzato: Holy terror
• ISBN: 1-383-04337-X; 0-19-162297-4; 1-280-75617-9; 0-19-151602-3; 1-4294-2192-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910784859603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II