Culture and the death of God / / Terry Eagleton

• Autore: Eagleton Terry <1943->
• 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
• 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.: 9910812877003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II