For many enlightened, liberal-minded thinkers today, and for most on the political left, evil is an outmoded concept.  It smacks too much of absolute judgments and metaphysical certainties to suit the modern age.  In this witty, accessible study, the prominent Marxist thinker Terry Eagleton launches a surprising defense of the reality of evil, drawing on literary, theological, and psychoanalytic sources to suggest that evil, no mere medieval artifact, is a real phenomenon with palpable force in our contemporary world.In a book that ranges from St. Augustine to alcoholism, Thomas Aquinas to Thomas Mann, Shakespeare to the Holocaust, Eagleton investigates the frightful plight of those doomed souls who apparently destroy for no reason.  In the process, he poses a set of intriguing questions.  Is evil really a kind of nothingness?  Why should it appear so glamorous and seductive?  Why does goodness seem so boring?  Is it really possible for human beings to delight in destruction for no reason at all? (20100315)

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Critically analyzes Benjamin's themes of the Baroque allegory, aura and commodity, and history, tradition, and revolution as well as probing the nature of his revolutionary criticism

In this major new book, Terry Eagleton, one of the world’sgreatest cultural theorists, writes with wit, eloquence and clarityon the question of ethics. Providing rare insights into tragedy,politics, literature, morality and religion, Eagleton examines keyethical theories through the framework of Jacques Lacan’scategories of the Imaginary, the Symbolic and the Real, measuringthem against the ‘richer’ ethical resources ofsocialism and the Judaeo-Christian tradition. a major new book from Terry Eagleton, one of the world’sgreatest cultural theoristsinvestigates ethical theories from Aristotle to Alain Badiouand Slavoj Žižekengages with the whole modern European tradition of thoughtabout ethicsbrings together personal and political ethics and makes apassionate case for political love

Product Description: Terry Eagleton is one of the most influential contemporary literary theorists and critics. His diverse body of work has been crucial to developments in cultural theory and literary critical practice in modern times, and for a generation of humanities students his writing has been a source of both provocation and enjoyment...read more

A new edition of a classic treatise on literary theory seeks to develop a sophisticated relationship between Marxism and literary criticism, evaluating the key works of such figures as Lenin, Trostsky, and Sartre as well as canonical writers including Charles Dickens and T. S. Eliot to demonstrate how ideology can play a productive and subversive role in literature. Reprint.

Product Description: This wide-ranging book argues that criticism emerged in early bourgeois society as a central feature of a “public sphere” in which political, ethical, and literary judgements could mingle under the benign rule of reason. The disintegration of this fragile culture brought on a crisis in criticism, whose history since the 18th century has been fraught with ambivalence and anxiety...read more

Product Description: Playwright, literary theorist, fine analyst of the works of Shakespeare, the Brontës, Swift and Joyce, scourge of postmodernism, autobiographer — Terry Eagleton’s achievements are many and his combative intelligence widely admired and respected...read more