Holy Terror

terry eagleton

In this investigation of the idea of terror, a cultural critic offers a metaphysics of terror with a serious historical perspective that draws upon political, philosophical, literary, and theological sources to trace a genealogy from the ancient world to present day.

Genres philosophypoliticsnonfictionreligiontheorysociologypsychologytheologyhistorycultural

160 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1,2005

This edition

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Published: November 1, 2005 by Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780199287178
ASIN: 0199287171
Language: English

About the author

terry eagleton

Widely regarded as England's most influential living literary critic & theorist, Dr. Eagleton currently serves as Distinguished Professor of English Literature at the University of Lancaster and as Visiting Professor at the National University of Ireland, Galway. He was Thomas Warton Prof. of English Literature at the University of Oxford ('92-01) & John Edward Taylor Professor of English Literature at the University of Manchester 'til '08. He returned to the University of Notre Dame in the Autumn '09 semester as Distinguished Visitor in the English Department.

He's written over 40 books, including Literary Theory: An Introduction ('83); The Ideology of the Aesthetic ('90) & The Illusions of Postmodernism ('96).
He delivered Yale's '08 Terry Lectures and gave a Gifford Lecture in 3/10, titled The God Debate.