Holy terror / Terry Eagleton.

By:

Eagleton, Terry, 1943-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.Description: 1 online resource (vii, 148 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

1429421924
9781429421928
9780199287178
0199287171
9780191516023
0191516023

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Holy terror.DDC classification:

201/.7 22

LOC classification:

BL65.T47 E24 2005eb

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Contents:

Invitation to an orgy -- States of sublimity -- Fear and freedom -- Saints and suicides -- The living dead -- Scapegoats.

Summary: 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.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-144) and index.

Invitation to an orgy -- States of sublimity -- Fear and freedom -- Saints and suicides -- The living dead -- Scapegoats.

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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.

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