Terry Eagleton on Evil

Dracula, Freddy Krueger, Iago, Lex Luther, any one of the countless wicked witches... The Devil, so they say, has all the best tunes.

 

 Evil is compelling, and not a little glamorous. But what separates the silver-tongued scoundrel from the monster of motiveless malignity?

 

The idea of evil has gone out of favor in recent times: it smack too much of absolute judgments and metaphysical certainties to suit the modern age. But renowned literary critic and philosopher, Terry Eagleton, is here to argue that evil remains a real phenomenon with palpable force in our contemporary world.

 

Join us for a sermon that ranges from St. Augustine to alcoholism, Thomas Aquinas to Thomas Mann, Shakespeare to the Holocaust to explore the dark underbelly of human existence.

 

Terry Eagleton is a world-renowned literary critic and philosopher, and former Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford. He has written over forty books, including Literary Theory: An Introduction (1983),The Ideology of the Aesthetic (1990), and The Illusions of Postmodernism (1996). He is currently Distinguished Professor of English Literature at the University of Lancaster. His most recent book is Reason, Faith and Revolution: Reflections on the God Debate (2009).