An edition of The death of Satan (1995)

The death of Satan

how Americans have lost the sense of evil

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Cover of: The death of Satan by Andrew Delbanco, Andrew Delbanco
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An edition of The death of Satan (1995)

The death of Satan

how Americans have lost the sense of evil

1st ed.

by

  • 4 Want to read
  • 1 Currently reading

From the back cover: "We live in the most brutal century in human history, but instead of stepping forward to to take the credit, the devil has been rendered himself invisible. The very notion of evil seems to be incompatible with modern life, from which the ideas of transgression and the accountable self are fast receding. Yet despite the 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. [Delbanco's] 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.

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Subjects

Literature and society, History and criticism, American literature, Ethics in literature, Devil in literature, American Ethics, American National characteristics, Evil in literature, Civilization, United States, Moral and ethical aspects, Good and evil in literature, Ethics, United states, moral conditions, Good and evil

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United States

Times

1620-1994

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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-261) and index.

6

Published in
New York

The Physical Object

Pagination
274 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cm.
Number of pages
274

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL21569610M
Internet Archive
deathofsatanhow00delb
ISBN 10
0374135665
LCCN
95010007
LibraryThing
185126
Goodreads
2429930

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL14435W

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The Laurentian Library MARC record
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Excerpts

Once, Satan was understood to be everywhere.
Page 23, added by Alex Voytek.

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