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Culture and the death of God / Terry Eagleton.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resource (x, 234 pages .)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780300206548
  • 0300206542
  • 1306407656
  • 9781306407656
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Culture and the death of GodDDC classification:
  • 200 23
LOC classification:
  • BL98 .E24 2014
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  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
The limits of Enlightenment -- Idealists -- Romantics -- The crisis of culture -- The death of God -- Modernism and after.
Summary: "How to live in a supposedly faithless world threatened by religious fundamentalism? Terry Eagleton, formidable thinker and renowned cultural critic, investigates in this thought-provoking book the contradictions, difficulties, and significance of the modern search for a replacement for God. Engaging with a phenomenally wide range of ideas, issues, and thinkers from the Enlightenment to today, Eagleton discusses the state of religion before and after 9/11, the ironies surrounding Western capitalism's part in spawning not only secularism but also fundamentalism, and the unsatisfactory surrogates for the Almighty invented in the post-Enlightenment era. The author reflects on the unique capacities of religion, the possibilities of culture and art as modern paths to salvation, the so-called war on terror's impact on atheism, and a host of other topics of concern to those who envision a future in which just and compassionate communities thrive. Lucid, stylish, and entertaining in his usual manner, Eagleton presents a brilliant survey of modern thought that also serves as a timely, urgently needed intervention into our perilous political present."--Publisher's description
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"How to live in a supposedly faithless world threatened by religious fundamentalism? Terry Eagleton, formidable thinker and renowned cultural critic, investigates in this thought-provoking book the contradictions, difficulties, and significance of the modern search for a replacement for God. Engaging with a phenomenally wide range of ideas, issues, and thinkers from the Enlightenment to today, Eagleton discusses the state of religion before and after 9/11, the ironies surrounding Western capitalism's part in spawning not only secularism but also fundamentalism, and the unsatisfactory surrogates for the Almighty invented in the post-Enlightenment era. The author reflects on the unique capacities of religion, the possibilities of culture and art as modern paths to salvation, the so-called war on terror's impact on atheism, and a host of other topics of concern to those who envision a future in which just and compassionate communities thrive. Lucid, stylish, and entertaining in his usual manner, Eagleton presents a brilliant survey of modern thought that also serves as a timely, urgently needed intervention into our perilous political present."--Publisher's description

The limits of Enlightenment -- Idealists -- Romantics -- The crisis of culture -- The death of God -- Modernism and after.

English.