The Imagination Of Evil

Author : Mary Evans
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441169488

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The Imagination of Evil by Mary Evans Pdf

From its growth in Europe in the nineteenth century, detective fiction has developed into one of the most popular genres of literature and popular culture more widely. In this monograph, Mary Evans examines detective fiction and its complex relationship to the modern and to modernity. She focuses on two key themes: the moral relationship of detection (and the detective) to a particular social world and the attempt to restore and even improve the social world that has been threatened and fractured by a crime, usually that of murder. It is a characteristic of much detective fiction that the detective, the pursuer, is a social outsider: this status creates a complex web of relationships between detective, institutional life and dominant and subversive moralities. Evans questions who and what the detective stands for and suggests that the answer challenges many of our assumptions about the relationship between various moralities in the modern world.

Author : Karen J. Renner
Publisher : Springer
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137599636

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Evil Children in the Popular Imagination by Karen J. Renner Pdf

Focusing on narratives with supernatural components, Karen J. Renner argues that the recent proliferation of stories about evil children demonstrates not a declining faith in the innocence of childhood but a desire to preserve its purity. From novels to music videos, photography to video games, the evil child haunts a range of texts and comes in a variety of forms, including changelings, ferals, and monstrous newborns. In this book, Renner illustrates how each subtype offers a different explanation for the problem of the “evil” child and adapts to changing historical circumstances and ideologies.

Author : Chris Carter
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781471179549

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Hunting Evil by Chris Carter Pdf

FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER THE CALLER Every story has a beginning . . . They met for the first time in college. Two of the brightest minds ever to graduate from the prestigious Stanford University. They met again in Quantico, Virginia. Robert Hunter has become the head of the LAPD’s Ultra Violent Crimes Unit. Lucien Folter has become the most prolific and dangerous serial killer in FBI history. The FBI caught Lucien. He's been in prison for years. But Lucien has just escaped. And he’s angry. He's going to make the person who put him away suffer. That person . . . is Robert Hunter. And every story must come to an end . . . PRAISE FOR CHRIS CARTER ‘An exceptional thriller writer who fully deserves to be ranked alongside Jeffery Deaver’ Daily Mail ‘Former criminal psychologist Carter knows what he’s talking about when it comes to creating bone-chilling serial killers, so be prepared for a terror ride’ Heat ‘Carter has a background in criminal psychology and the killers at the centre of his novels are all the more terrifying for it’ Mail on Sunday ‘Carter is one of those authors who makes writing look effortless . . . I couldn't put it down’ Crimesquad ‘An insanely good crime series. Extraordinarily well written, high quality and high drama all the way’ Liz Loves Books ‘An intriguing and scary thriller’ Better Reading ‘A gripping feast of thrills’ Shots ‘A page turner’ Express ‘A gripping psychological thriller’ Breakaway ‘Punchy and fast paced’ Sunday Mirror

Author : C. G. Jung
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2024-01-09
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780691264936

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Jung on Evil by C. G. Jung Pdf

Illuminating selections from Jung’s writings on the nature of evil Well-known for his articulation of the “shadow side” of human individuality and culture, C. G. Jung wrote a great deal about the question of evil throughout his life and in scattered places in his work. In this book, Murray Stein brings together key selections of Jung’s writings on the subject. In Jung’s early work on the unconscious, he considered the role of evil in the mental processes of the severely disturbed. Later, he viewed the question of moral choice within the framework of his ideas about archetypes and discussions about moral choices, conscience, and the continual ethical reflection that is necessary for all of us. The material here includes letters to Freud and Father Victor White and writings ranging from his Answer to Job to his travel piece on North Africa.

Author : Peter Murphy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317037842

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The Collective Imagination by Peter Murphy Pdf

The Collective Imagination explores the social foundations of the human imagination. In a lucid and wide-ranging discussion, Peter Murphy looks at the collective expression of the imagination in our economies, universities, cities, and political systems, providing a tour-de-force account of the power of the imagination to unite opposites and find similarities among things that we ordinarily think of as different. It is not only individuals who possess the power to imagine; societies do as well. A compelling journey through various peak moments of creation, this book examines the cities and nations, institutions and individuals who ply the paraphernalia of paradoxes and dialogues, wry dramaturgy and witty expression that set the act of creation in motion. Whilst exploring the manner in which, through the media of pattern, figure, and shape, and the miracles of metaphor, things come into being, Murphy recognises that creative periods never last: creative forms invariably tire; inventive centres inevitably fade. The Collective Imagination explores the contemporary dilemmas and historic pathos caused by this-as cities and societies, periods and generations slip behind in the race for economic and social discovery. Left bewildered and bothered, and struggling to catch up, they substitute empty bombast, faded glory, chronic dullness or stolid glumness for initiative, irony, and inventiveness. A comprehensive audit of the creativity claims of the post-modern age - that finds them badly wanting and looks to the future - The Collective Imagination will appeal to sociologists and philosophers concerned with cultural theory, cultural and media studies and aesthetics.

Author : Paul Ricœur
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1451415702

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Figuring the Sacred by Paul Ricœur Pdf

The thought of Paul Ricoeur continues its profound effect on theology, religious studies and biblical interpretation. The 28 papers contained in this volume constitute the most comprehensive overview of Ricoeur's writings in religion since 1970. Ricoeur's hermeneutical orientation and his sensitivity to the mystery of religious language offer fresh insight to the transformative potential of sacred literature, including the Bible.

Author : Eva T. H. Brann
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 828 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0847677761

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The World of the Imagination by Eva T. H. Brann Pdf

In this book, Eva Brann sets out no less a task than to assess the meaning of imagination in its multifarious expressions throughout western history. The result is one of those rare achievements that will make The World of the Imagination a standard reference.

Author : Bernard Dive
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780567245618

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John Henry Newman and the Imagination by Bernard Dive Pdf

For John Henry Newman, religion is animated by an imaginative 'master vision' which 'supplies the mind with spiritual life and peace'. All his life, Newman reflected on this 'master vision'. His reflections on the moral imagination developed out of his understanding of practical wisdom, as characterized by Aristotle – the wisdom that 'the good man' has in living a good life. For Newman, the vision at the core of religion completes and perfects the intuitions of the conscience. John Henry Newman and the Imagination looks at how Newman's understanding of the moral and visionary imagination developed over the course of his life; and it relates his ideas about the imagination to his portrayals of religious experience, and vision, in his novels and poetry.

Author : John Bunyan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555000102

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Little books by John Bunyan [ed. by G. Offor by John Bunyan Pdf

Author : Richard van Oort
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442650077

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Shakespeare's Big Men by Richard van Oort Pdf

Shakespeare's Big Men examines five Shakespearean tragedies - Julius Caesar, Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, and Coriolanus - through the lens of generative anthropology and the insights of its founder, Eric Gans. Generative anthropology's theory of the origins of human society explains the social function of tragedy: to defer our resentment against the "big men" who dominate society by letting us first identify with the tragic protagonist and his resentment, then allowing us to repudiate the protagonist's resentful rage and achieve theatrical catharsis. Drawing on this hypothesis, Richard van Oort offers inspired readings of Shakespeare's plays and their representations of desire, resentment, guilt, and evil. His analysis revives the universal spirit in Shakespearean criticism, illustrating how the plays can serve as a way to understand the ethical dilemma of resentment and discover within ourselves the nature of the human experience.

Author : Richard Kearney
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 668 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2002-11-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134812592

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The Wake of Imagination by Richard Kearney Pdf

With his remarkable range of vision, the author takes us on a voyage of discovery that leads from Eden to Fellini, from paradise to parody - plotting the various models of the imagination as: Hebraic, Greek, medieval, Romantic, existential and post-modern.

Author : Douglas Hedley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2008-02-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567551276

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Living Forms of the Imagination by Douglas Hedley Pdf

"This book is essential reading for those interested in the imagination, epistemology, naturalism, and the philosophy of religion." - Charles Taliaferro, Professor of Philosophy, St. Olaf College, Minnesota The role of imagination in psychology, ethics and aesthetics provides a good analogy for thinking about the imagination in religious belief. in dealing with the inner lives of other human beings, moral values or aesthetic qualities we need to employ the imagination: to suppose, form hypotheses, empathize or imaginatively engage with alien people or worlds in order to understand. Just as we use the imagination to relate to other minds, appreciate beauty and understand goodness, we need imagination to engage with God's action in the world.

Author : Richard Kearney
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2002-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134812608

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The Wake of Imagination by Richard Kearney Pdf

With his remarkable range of vision, the author takes us on a voyage of discovery that leads from Eden to Fellini, from paradise to parody - plotting the various models of the imagination as: Hebraic, Greek, medieval, Romantic, existential and post-modern.

Author : John Bunyan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1730
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0021125145

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The Greatness of the Soul, and unspeakableness of the Loss thereof; with the causes of the losing it. First preached at Pinners Hall, and now enlarged, etc by John Bunyan Pdf

Author : Paul Matta
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781300637691

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A Poet Explains Imagination by Paul Matta Pdf

Paul Matta tells the story of the imagination in 3 parts. He begins by introducing the reader to God's imagination. He then discuss the artistic achievements and failures of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. And finally Matta talks about Jesus' imagination. How much do you know about your artistic connection to Adam and Eve? The Garden of Eden was fertile ground for pure imagination. God encouraged Adam to be creative. Adam learned to be expressive in the garden too. Together Adam and Eve held a creative weapon that they neglected to use on the serpent. That weapon was the imagination. Learn more in this book.