On Evil

By: Terry Eagleton

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Paperback | 26 April 2011 | Edition Number 1

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An impassioned argument for the existence of evil from one of the most respected and influential critics of our day

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?

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"'Terry Eagleton's Reason, Faith, and Revolution attacks the new atheism as a kind of secular counter-fundamentalism... Better than any previous book of its kind.' (James Wood, The New Yorker) 'Jaunty and surprisingly entertaining, Eagleton's argument is subtle, intricate, provocative and limpidly expressed... A valuable contribution to a debate as old as Adam and Eve and as contemporary as 9/11 and Abu Ghraib.' (John Banville, Irish Times)"

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