Culture and the death of God / / Terry Eagleton
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| Autore: |
Eagleton Terry <1943->
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| Titolo: |
Culture and the death of God / / Terry Eagleton
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| Pubblicazione: | New Haven, Connecticut : , : Yale University Press, , 2014 |
| ©2014 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (248 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 200 |
| Soggetto topico: | Religion - History |
| God | |
| Enlightenment | |
| Religion and culture | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Includes index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- CHAPTER 1. The Limits of Enlightenment -- CHAPTER 2. Idealists -- CHAPTER 3 .Romantics -- CHAPTER 4. The Crisis of Culture -- CHAPTER 5 .The Death of God -- CHAPTER 6. Modernism and After -- Notes -- Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | How to live in a supposedly faithless world threatened by religious fundamentalism? Terry Eagleton, formidable thinker and renowned cultural critic, investigates in this thought-provoking book the contradictions, difficulties, and significance of the modern search for a replacement for God. Engaging with a phenomenally wide range of ideas, issues, and thinkers from the Enlightenment to today, Eagleton discusses the state of religion before and after 9/11, the ironies surrounding Western capitalism's part in spawning not only secularism but also fundamentalism, and the unsatisfactory surrogates for the Almighty invented in the post-Enlightenment era. The author reflects on the unique capacities of religion, the possibilities of culture and art as modern paths to salvation, the so-called war on terror's impact on atheism, and a host of other topics of concern to those who envision a future in which just and compassionate communities thrive. Lucid, stylish, and entertaining in his usual manner, Eagleton presents a brilliant survey of modern thought that also serves as a timely, urgently needed intervention into our perilous political present. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Culture and the death of God |
| ISBN: | 0-300-20654-2 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910453602203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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