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On Evil

On Evil

On Evil
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On Evil Soft cover - 2011

by Eagleton, Terry

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Yale University Press. A trade paperback with a display quality spine. Pages are clean, bright and tight. 176 pages. . Very Good. Soft cover. 2011.
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  • Title On Evil
  • Author Eagleton, Terry
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Paperback
  • Condition Used - Very good
  • Pages 176
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Yale University Press, US
  • Publication date 2011
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # Az3307
  • ISBN 9780300171259 / 0300171250
  • Weight 0.5 lbs (0.23 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.2 x 5.4 x 0.6 in (20.83 x 13.72 x 1.52 cm)
  • Category Philosophy
  • Dewey Decimal Code 111.84
  • Quantity available 1

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From the publisher

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?

About the author

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.
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