Sweet Violence

In this book, which is a masterpiece, Terry Eagleton attempts a political analysis of tragedy and the history of tragedies. This critical study, which explores a wide range of interdisciplinary fields from drama to literature and philosophy, from religion to theology and anthropology, creates a radical route that reveals the connections and clusters between ancient fertility cults and sacrificial rhythms and modern age revolutions. Defining "pain" as a common variable of meaning, a "language" that enables the sharing of the common and where different life forms can enter into dialogue, Eagleton argues against culturalist and historicist "arrogance" and relativity, and defines tragic art on the basis of the continuities inherent in the species and existential nature of human beings. , puts what is fragile and slow in an illuminating context. Eagleton traces this context among ancient tragedies, sacred texts, modern novel traditions and modern and postmodern cultural transformations, from Christianity to Marxism and existentialism, from Hegel to Beckett, from tragic heroes in the tragic scenes to the Holocaust and real-life tragedies. It asks important questions and opens them up for discussion, accompanied by examples ranging from democracy to fascism and socialism: Should a genuine objectivity paradigm be ethical, not epistemological? Could the weakness, fragility, irritability and vulnerability of the human being as a species-body be not an obstacle to radical politics, but on the contrary, a source of strength? What is the uncanny power that will transform the system in the scapegoat, which embodies dirt, madness and guilt? Why does it carry the seeds of a revolutionary representation? What do the Lears, Oedipuses, Abrahams and Antigones, who reject the demands of the symbolic order and have strayed into a complete life-in-death purgatory, represent and what is the meaning and meaning of this representation in today's world?

This book by Terry Eagleton is a bold and comprehensive work that bridges the author's secular and socialist ideas with his metaphysical and theological aspirations...
Prof. Homi K. Bhabha, Harvard University



Number of Pages: 400

Year of Printing: 2012


Language: Turkish
Publisher: Details Publications

First Print Year: 2012

Number of Pages: 400

Language Turkish