On Evil by Terry Eagleton

On Evil by Terry Eagleton

For many enlightened, liberal-minded thinkers today, and for most on the political left, evil is an outmoded concept. This study launches a 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.

“Terry Eagleton’s Reason, Faith, and Revolution attacks the new atheism as a kind of secular counter-fundamentalism… Better than any previous book of its kind”—James Wood, The New Yorker -- James Wood * New Yorker *

"An absorbing, stimulating, awfully entertaining discussion.”--Ray Olson, Booklist

-- Ray Olson * Booklist *

“Jaunty and surprisingly entertaining. . .[Eagleton's] argument is subtle, intricate, provocative and limpidly expressed. . . . A valuable contribution to a debate as old as Adam and Eve and as contemporary as 9/11 and Abu Ghraib.” — John Banville, Irish Times

  -- John Banville * Irish Times *
"On Evil belongs to the genre of religious psychology, where Eagleton brilliantly relates the ultimate concerns of the theologian with the penultimate concerns of the psychoanalyst. Without the former, the result would be a study of human discontent; without the latter, a retreat into papier-mâché piety. Here, Aquinas meets Freud--enriching our reflections on the nature and manifestations of evil."--Christopher Benson, Christianity Today
-- Christopher Benson * Christianity Today *

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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ISBN 13	9780300151060
ISBN 10	0300151063
Title	On Evil
Author	Terry Eagleton
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Yale University Press
Year published	2010-04-06
Number of pages	192
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