TY  - BOOK
AU  - Eagleton,Terry
TI  - Culture and the death of God
SN  - 9780300206548
AV  - BL98 .E24 2014
U1  - 200 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - New Haven
PB  - Yale University Press
KW  - Religion
KW  - History
KW  - God
KW  - Enlightenment
KW  - Religion and culture
KW  - Histoire
KW  - Dieu
KW  - Siècle des Lumières
KW  - Religion et culture
KW  - religious history
KW  - aat
KW  - Enlightenment (18th-century western movement)
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Comparative Religion
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Essays
KW  - Reference
KW  - PHILOSOPHY
KW  - Religious
KW  - fast
N1  - The limits of Enlightenment -- Idealists -- Romantics -- The crisis of culture -- The death of God -- Modernism and after
N2  - "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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