Culture And The Death Of God
by Terry Eagleton /
2014 / English / EPUB
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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.
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.
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.
