Culture and the death of God / Terry Eagleton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Eagleton, Terry, 1943-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religion--History.

Religion.

God.

Enlightenment.

Religion and culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (248 p.)

Place of Publication:

New Haven, Connecticut : Yale University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Preface

CHAPTER 1. The Limits of Enlightenment

CHAPTER 2. Idealists

CHAPTER 3 .Romantics

CHAPTER 4. The Crisis of Culture

CHAPTER 5 .The Death of God

CHAPTER 6. Modernism and After

Notes

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-300-20654-2

OCLC:

994549874