What is Evil? | Terry Eagleton

What is evil? Why does it still exist? One of the world’s most influential literary theorists and critics, Terry Eagleton unravels the mystery behind it.

The prominent Marxist thinker has written extensively on evil, launching a surprising defense of the reality of evil in his book 'On Evil'. Drawing on literary, theological, and psychoanalytic sources he suggests that evil, no mere medieval artifact, is a real phenomenon with palpable force in our contemporary world.

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Terry Eagleton: One of the world’s most influential literary theorists and critics, Eagleton is Professor of English Literature at Lancaster. Eagleton has published over forty books, but remains best known for Literary Theory: An Introduction (1983). He has also been a prominent critic of postmodernism, publishing works such as The Illusions of Postmodernism (1996) and After Theory (2003). He argues that, influenced by postmodernism, cultural theory has wrongly devalued objectivity and ethics. His thinking is influenced by Marxism and by Christian faith.

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