Holy Terror by Terry Eagleton
Sets the idea and ideology of 'terror' in a historical, metaphysical, theological, and literary context. This study 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.
There have been plenty of rather hastily written books about terrorism in the wake of the appalling events of recent months, but for me the best was beyond question Terry Eagleton's little gem 'Holy Terror'.. it offers one of the best guides I know to what matters most in Christianity. Rowan Williams, Books of the Year, TLS Its central argument is right and, more to the point, welcome. Bryan Appleyard, Sunday Times The literature on terrorism grows by the shelf-load, but Eagleton's is a genuinely fresh take. This is a politics book in the widest sense, and it is all the better for it. Aditya Chakrabortty, New Statesman A sprightly set of essays. Steven Poole, The Guardian Terry Eagleton's intriguing study is admirably free from short-sightedness. A rich and finely wrought essay, which fully displays the bleakness of the human condition, yet offers, in the end, an elusive ray of hope. John Cottingham, The Tablet This is Eagleton at his most interesting. Provocative, startling, and always relevant to politics. Bill McSweeney, Irish Times With luck, though, Holy Terror is the opening in what could become a useful debate. Michael Moorcock, Daily Telegraph
Terry Eagleton is Professor of Cultural Theory and John Rylands Fellow, University of Manchester. His other books include Ideology; The Function of Criticism; Heathcliff and the Great Hunger; Against the Grain; Walter Benjamin; and Criticism and Ideology, all from Verso. Matthew Beaumont is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at University College London. He is the author of Utopia Ltd.: Ideologies of Social Dreaming in England 1870-1900 (2005), and the co-author, with Terry Eagleton, of The Task of the Critic: Terry Eagleton in Dialogue (2009). He has edited or co-edited several collections of essays: As Radical as Reality Itself: Essays on Marxism and Art for the 21st Century; The Railway and Modernity: Time, Space, and the Machine Ensemble; Adventures in Realism; and Restless Cities. He is currently writing a book about nightwalking in cities, Midnight Streets.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780199287178 |
| ISBN 10 | 0199287171 |
| Title | Holy Terror |
| Author | Terry Eagleton |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Year published | 2005-09-08 |
| Number of pages | 160 |
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