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



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Autore: Eagleton Terry <1943-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Holy terror [[electronic resource] /] / Terry Eagleton Visualizza cluster
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
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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
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