On Evil

Friday, June 17, 2011

On Evil, a book by Marxist cultural theorist Terry Eagleton, tackles a subject that is often frowned upon by some leftists as a wimpy affair. Eagleton argues that it is wrong to reject the notion of evil as abstract and metaphysical.

TIRO SEBINA (2010)
Author: Terry Eagleton
Publisher: Yale University Press
Place of Publication: New Haven and London ISBN: 978-0-300-17125-9

Using sources from theology, philosophy, literature and psychoanalysis, the book administers a clever check-up on the idea of evil as a condition of being as well as a quality of behaviour.

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