TY  - BOOK
AU  - Eagleton,Terry
TI  - Holy terror
SN  - 1429421924
AV  - BL65.T47 E24 2005eb
U1  - 201/.7 22
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Oxford, New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Terrorism
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Violence
KW  - Terror
KW  - Terrorisme
KW  - Aspect religieux
KW  - Terreur
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Sexuality & Gender Studies
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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