Holy Terror

Holy Terror is a profound and timely investigation of the idea of terror, drawing upon political, philosophical, literary, and theological sources to trace a genealogy from the ancient world to the modern day. Eagleton offers here a metaphysics of terror with a serious historical perspective. Writing with remarkable clarity and persuasive insight he examines a concept whose cultural impact predates 9/11 by millennia. From its earliest manifestations in rite and ritual, through the French Revolution to the 'War on Terror' of today, terror has been regarded with both horror and fascination. Eagleton examines the duality of the sacred (both life-giving and death-dealing) and relates it, via current and past ideas of freedom, to the idea of terror itself. book takes in en route ideas of God, freedom, the sublime, and the unconscious. It also examines the problem of evil, and devotes a concluding chapter to the idea of tragic sacrifice and the scapegoat. provocative and ambitious examination of one of the most urgent issues of our time.

• Author
• Terry Eagleton

• Format
• hardcover

• Pages
• 148

• Publisher
• Oxford University Press, USA

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780199287178

• Genres
• philosophy, politics, religion, theory, sociology, psychology, cultural, research, criticism

• Release date
• 2005