Culture and the Death of God.
By: Eagleton, Terry.
Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, 2015Description: x, 234p ; pbk.ISBN: 9780300212334.Subject(s): Religion | Religion and Culture | Enlightenment | God | Religion-HistoryDDC classification: 200Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() |
ATU St Angela's McKeown Library Main Lending Collection | 200 EAG (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | T39650 |
The limits of Enlightenment --I︣dealists --R︣omantics --T︣he crisis of culture --T︣he death of God --M︣odernism and after.
"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."--Publisher's description.