On evil [[electronic resource] /] / Terry Eagleton
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| Autore: |
Eagleton Terry <1943->
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| Titolo: |
On evil [[electronic resource] /] / Terry Eagleton
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| Pubblicazione: | New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2010 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (128 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 111/.84 |
| Soggetto topico: | Good and evil |
| Ethics | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Front matter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Fictions Of Evil -- 2. Obscene Enjoyment -- 3. Job's Comforters -- Notes -- Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | In this witty, accessible study, the prominent Marxist thinker Terry Eagleton launches a surprising defense of the reality of evil, drawing on literary, theological, and psychoanalytic sources to suggest that evil, no mere medieval artifact, is a real phenomenon with palpable force in our contemporary world. In a book that ranges from St. Augustine to alcoholism, Thomas Aquinas to Thomas Mann, Shakespeare to the Holocaust, Eagleton investigates the frightful plight of those doomed souls who apparently destroy for no reason. In the process, he poses a set of intriguing questions. Is evil really a kind of nothingness? Why should it appear so glamorous and seductive? Why does goodness seem so boring? Is it really possible for human beings to delight in destruction for no reason at all? |
| Titolo autorizzato: | On evil |
| ISBN: | 1-299-46382-7 |
| 0-300-16296-0 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910463121303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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