Terry Eagleton - Culture and the Death of God (2014) torrent

* Terry Eagleton - CULTURE AND THE DEATH OF GOD (Yale UP, 2014). 248 pp. -- PDF + ePUB


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.


Reviews

"A tour-de-force survey of the changing relation of culture and religion." -- Publishers Weekly

"Eagleton deftly explores the shifting relationships among reason, religion, culture, myth, art, tragedy and the modern sensibility of the absurd, all expressed with a dry wit and provocative epigrams." -- Kirkus Reviews

"Eagleton produces an account of the continuing power of religion that is rich and compelling. Open this book at random, and you will find on a single page more thought-stirring argument than can be gleaned from a dozen ponderous treatises on philosophy of sociology. Most of the critical turning points in modern thought are examined illuminatingly." -- John Gray, New Statesman

"Wide-ranging and intellectually impassioned." -- Sarah Bakewell, The Financial Times


For more works by Terry Eagleton, see also:

* LITERARY AND CULTURAL CRITICISM (19 books) - http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/9036245/

* HOW TO READ A POEM - http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/9131282/

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