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A compelling guide to the fundamental place of humor and comedy within Western culture - by one of its greatest exponents.
Written by an acknowledged master of comedy, this study reflects on the nature of humor and the functions it serves. Why do we laugh? What are we to make of the sheer variety of laughter, from braying and cackling to sniggering and chortling? Is humor subversive, or can it defuse dissent? Can we define wit?
Packed with illuminating ideas and a good many excellent jokes, the book critically examines various well-known theories of humor, including the idea that it springs from incongruity and the view that it reflects a mildly sadistic form of superiority to others. Drawing on a wide range of literary and philosophical sources, Terry Eagleton moves from Aristotle and Aquinas to Hobbes, Freud, and Bakhtin, looking in particular at the psychoanalytical mechanisms underlying humor and its social and political evolution over the centuries.
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In this combative, controversial book, Terry Eagleton takes issue with the prejudice that Marxism is dead and done with. Taking 10 of the most common objections to Marxism - that it leads to political tyranny, that it reduces everything to the economic, that it is a form of historical determinism, and so on - he demonstrates in each case what a woeful travesty of Marx's own thought these assumptions are.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Brilliant Narrator
- De Stephen en 08-11-18
De: Terry Eagleton
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Radical Sacrifice
- De: Terry Eagleton
- Narrado por: Roger Clark
- Duración: 6 h y 56 m
- Versión completa
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The modern conception of sacrifice is at once cast as a victory of self-discipline over desire and condescended to as destructive and archaic abnegation. But even in the Old Testament, the dual natures of sacrifice, embodying both ritual slaughter and moral rectitude, were at odds. In this analysis, Terry Eagleton makes a compelling argument that the idea of sacrifice has long been misunderstood. Pursuing the complex lineage of sacrifice in a lyrical discourse, Eagleton focuses on the Old and New Testaments, offering a virtuosic analysis of the crucifixion.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great book with decent narration
- De Amazon Customer en 06-27-20
De: Terry Eagleton
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Cultish
- The Language of Fanaticism
- De: Amanda Montell
- Narrado por: Ann Marie Gideon
- Duración: 8 h y 21 m
- Versión completa
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What makes “cults” so intriguing and frightening? What makes them powerful? The reason why so many of us binge Manson documentaries by the dozen and fall down rabbit holes researching suburban moms gone QAnon is because we’re looking for a satisfying explanation for what causes people to join - and more importantly, stay in - extreme groups. We secretly want to know: could it happen to me? Amanda Montell’s argument is that, on some level, it already has.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Get this book ASAP
- De chris boutte en 06-17-21
De: Amanda Montell
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Across the Pond
- An Englishman's View of America
- De: Terry Eagleton
- Narrado por: Richard Shelton
- Duración: 6 h y 11 m
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Americans have long been fascinated with the oddness of the British, but the English, says literary critic Terry Eagleton, find their transatlantic neighbors just as strange. Only an alien race would admiringly refer to a colleague as "aggressive," use superlatives to describe everything from one's pet dog to one's rock collection, or speak frequently of being "empowered."
De: Terry Eagleton
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- AQ
- 01-11-23
boring
struggled to finish
almost fell a sleep several times
would not recommend at all
sorry
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- LoveElectronics
- 01-27-23
Terrible narration, boring and monotone
Terrible narration, boring and monotone. Need someone more exciting to narrate. It is very hard to listen to now.
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