Holy Terror
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Product details:
- Publisher Oxford University Press
- Date of Publication 8 September 2005
- ISBN 9780199287178
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages160 pages
- Size 203x135x17 mm
- Weight 302 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
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.
MoreLong description:
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 political studies of terrorism, Terry Eagleton offers here a metaphysics of terror with a serious historical perspective. Writing with remarkable clarity and persuasive insight he examines a concept whose cultural impact predates 9/11 by millennia. From its earliest manifestations in rite and ritual, through the French Revolution to the 'War on Terror' of today, terror has been regarded with both horror and fascination. Eagleton examines the duality of
the sacred (both life-giving and death-dealing) and relates it, via current and past ideas of freedom, to the idea of terror itself.
Stretching from the cult of Dionysus to the thought of Jacques Lacan, the book takes in en route ideas of God, freedom, the sublime, and the unconscious. It also examines the problem of evil, and devotes a concluding chapter to the idea of tragic sacrifice and the scapegoat.
Written by one of the world's foremost cultural critics, Holy Terror is a provocative and ambitious examination of one of the most urgent issues of our time.
A quirky, provocative look at the metaphysics of political violence over the centuries.
Table of Contents:
Invitation to an Orgy
States of Sublimity
Fear and Freedom
Saints and Suicides
The Living Dead
Scapegoats
