Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1998
ISBN 10: 0374222711 ISBN 13: 9780374222710
Anbieter: Buchmarie, Darmstadt, Deutschland
Zustand: Good.
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2000
ISBN 10: 0374308276 ISBN 13: 9780374308278
Anbieter: Buchmarie, Darmstadt, Deutschland
Zustand: Good.
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1976
ISBN 10: 0374513791 ISBN 13: 9780374513795
Anbieter: Buchmarie, Darmstadt, Deutschland
Zustand: Good.
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2014
ISBN 10: 0374146446 ISBN 13: 9780374146443
Anbieter: Buchmarie, Darmstadt, Deutschland
Zustand: Good. Auflage: 2014. ausgeschiedenes Bibliotheksexemplar.
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc, 2020
ISBN 10: 0374313091 ISBN 13: 9780374313098
Anbieter: Buchmarie, Darmstadt, Deutschland
Zustand: Good.
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc, 2019
ISBN 10: 0374279365 ISBN 13: 9780374279363
Anbieter: Buchmarie, Darmstadt, Deutschland
Zustand: Very Good.
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2006
ISBN 10: 0374530114 ISBN 13: 9780374530112
Anbieter: Buchmarie, Darmstadt, Deutschland
Zustand: Very Good.
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1995
ISBN 10: 0374135665 ISBN 13: 9780374135669
Anbieter: River House Books, San Antonio, TX, USA
Erstausgabe
Hard. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 22. Inventory ID 657953. Hardcover Cloth 274 pages. Condition Very Good Dust Jacket Very Good. Stated first edition 1995. Handsome grey boards with black buckram spine and silver embossing shows off this Clean, tight, square copy with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Book Well kept and carefully stored in unread condition. Slight shelf wear with undamaged corners. An unclipped dust jacket with slight shelf wear - a few scrapes, wrinkles and chips. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy. Want to protect the book's dust jacket with a mylar cover? Add Biblio or ABEBooks listing 657791 or eBay item 176708421996 to your purchase.We live in the most brutal century in human history, but instead of stepping forward to take the credit, the devil has rendered himself invisible. The very notion of evil seems incompatible with modern life, from which the ideas of transgression and the accountable self are fast receding. Yet despite this loss of old words and moral concepts - Satan, sin, evil - we cannot do without some conceptual means for thinking about the universal human experience of cruelty and pain. My driving motive in writing this book has been the conviction that if evil, with all its insidious complexity, escapes the reach of our imagination, it will have established dominion over us all.'Americans once believed in God and in Satan; they were known to be obsessed with sin, and they pictured their own history as a struggle with evil. Today, however, while the repetoire of evil seems never to have been richer, as we daily encounter (and even relish) images of unimaginable horror, our grasp on the reality of evil seems weak and uncertain, our responses to it flustered and sometimes indifferent. How has this crisis of incompetence come about?In this important new book, the brilliant scholar Andrew Delbanco proposes a fresh, persuasive interpretation of the American past - and present - that offers a way to resolve this crisis of moral imagination. In a kind of spiritual biography of the American nation, he shows us how the writers of the past three centuries have depicted evil and how, by giving it form and meaning, they have tried to defy and subdue it. His nuanced and yet tough-minded analyses of religious leaders like Cotton Mather and Jonathan Edwards, political redeemers such as Jefferson and Lincoln, classic writers like Emerson and Melville, Thoreau and Whitman, and more recent figures, including Niebuhr and Trilling, Rachel Carson and Susan Sontag, show us the strategies by which these writers have recognized and done battle with evil.One way of talking about evil is to demonize and satanize it, depict it as the foreign "other," a monstrous reality far from ourselves. This way of understanding evil as remote and alien seems to be on the rise again today. But as Mr. Delbanco's superb study shows us, Satan has sometimes had a very different meaning in our history - as a symbol of our own deficient love, our potential for envy and rancor toward creation. Americans have always been engaged in a contest between these two ways of understanding evil; and it remains a struggle in which nothing less than America's destiny is at stake.
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2011
ISBN 10: 0374112576 ISBN 13: 9780374112578
Anbieter: Buchmarie, Darmstadt, Deutschland
Zustand: Good. Cover leicht verschmutzt.
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2008
ISBN 10: 0374288518 ISBN 13: 9780374288518
Anbieter: Buchmarie, Darmstadt, Deutschland
Zustand: Very Good.
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc, 2018
ISBN 10: 0374306826 ISBN 13: 9780374306823
Anbieter: Buchmarie, Darmstadt, Deutschland
Zustand: Good.