RT Book
T1 Holy terror
A2 Eagleton, Terry 1943-
LA English
PP Oxford New York
PB Oxford University Press
YR 2005
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/802201318
AB Invitation to an orgy -- States of sublimity -- Fear and freedom -- Saints and suicides -- The living dead -- Scapegoats.
AB 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. - ;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 polit
OP 148
NO Includes bibliographical references (p. [141]-144) and index. - Description based on print version record
CN BL65.T47
SN 978-0-19-928717-8
SN 0-19-928717-1
SN 1-4294-2192-4
SN 978-1-4294-2192-8
K1 Terrorism : Religious aspects
K1 Violence : Religious aspects
K1 Terror
K1 Terrorismus
K1 Religion
K1 RELIGION ; Sexuality & Gender Studies
K1 Terrorism ; Religious aspects
K1 Violence ; Religious aspects
K1 Electronic books