Richard Kearney

Strangers, Gods and Monsters

Interpreting Otherness

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Produktbeschreibung

This is a fascinating look at how human identity is shaped by three powerful but enigmatic forces. Richard Kearney shows, how the human outlook on the world is formed by the mysterious triumvirate of strangers, gods and monsters,

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. September 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 468g
• ISBN-13: 9780415272582
• ISBN-10: 0415272580
• Artikelnr.: 21711292

Autorenporträt

Richard Kearney is Professor of Philosophy at Boston College and University College Dublin. His publications include On Stories,Wake of Imagination and Postnationalist Ireland (all published by Routledge), and Sam's Fall (novel).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Strangers and Scapegoats 2. Rights of Sacrifice 3. Aliens
and Others 4. Evil, Monstrosity and the Sublime 5. On Terror 6. Hamlet's
Ghosts: From Shakespeare to Joyce 7. Melancholy: Between Gods and Monsters
8. The Immemorial: A Task of Narrative 9. God or Khora? 10. Last Gods and
Final Things Conclusion