Holy terror [[electronic resource] /] / Terry Eagleton
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| Autore: |
Eagleton Terry <1943->
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| Titolo: |
Holy terror [[electronic resource] /] / Terry Eagleton
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| 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 | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| 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: | 1-280-75617-9 |
| 0-19-151602-3 | |
| 1-4294-2192-4 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910458302203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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