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Holy terror / Terry Eagleton.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Eagleton, Terry, 1943-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Terrorism--Religious aspects.
- Terrorism.
- Violence--Religious aspects.
- Violence.
- Terror.
- Physical Description:
- 148 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
- Summary:
- Eagleton exams the earliest manifestations of the idea of terror in rites and ritual through its rebirth as a political idea with the French Revolution to the "War on Terror" of today. He sheds light on ideas of God, freedom, the sublime, and the unconscious.
- Contents:
- Invitation to an orgy
- States of sublimity
- Fear and freedom
- Saints and suicides
- The living dead
- Scapegoats.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0199287171
- OCLC:
- 61115472
- Publisher Number:
- 9780199287178 (alk. paper)
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