TY - BOOK ID - 77895614 TI - On evil PY - 2010 SN - 1299463827 0300162960 9780300162967 9780300151060 0300151063 9780300171259 0300171250 9781299463820 PB - New Haven Yale University Press DB - UniCat KW - Good and evil. KW - Ethics. KW - Deontology KW - Ethics, Primitive KW - Ethology KW - Moral philosophy KW - Morality KW - Morals KW - Philosophy, Moral KW - Science, Moral KW - Philosophy KW - Values KW - Evil KW - Wickedness KW - Ethics KW - Polarity KW - Religious thought UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77895614 AB - In this witty, accessible study, the prominent Marxist thinker Terry Eagleton launches a surprising defense of the reality of evil, drawing on literary, theological, and psychoanalytic sources to suggest that evil, no mere medieval artifact, is a real phenomenon with palpable force in our contemporary world. In a book that ranges from St. Augustine to alcoholism, Thomas Aquinas to Thomas Mann, Shakespeare to the Holocaust, Eagleton investigates the frightful plight of those doomed souls who apparently destroy for no reason. In the process, he poses a set of intriguing questions. Is evil really a kind of nothingness? Why should it appear so glamorous and seductive? Why does goodness seem so boring? Is it really possible for human beings to delight in destruction for no reason at all? ER -