On Evil

Informationen zum Autor Terry Eagleton is currently Bailrigg Professor of English Literature at the University of Lancaster, England, and Professor of Cultural Theory at the National University of Ireland, Galway. He lives in Dublin. Klappentext An impassioned argument for the existence of evil from one of the most respected and influential critics of our day 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? Zusammenfassung Launches a surprising defence of the reality of evil! drawing on literary! theological! and psychoanalytic sources to suggest that evil! no mere medieval artefact! is a real phenomenon with palpable force in our contemporary world.

Product details

• Authors: Terry Eagleton, Terry (University of Manchester) Eagleton
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.04.2011
• EAN: 9780300171259
• ISBN: 978-0-300-17125-9
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 141 mm x 210 mm x 15 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, Ethische Themen und Debatten, Ethik und Moralphilosophie, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics, Ethics & moral philosophy, Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology, Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology, Ethics and moral philosophy, Ethical issues & debates, Ethical issues and debates