Death of Satan : How Americans Have Lost the Sense of Evil

Name: Death of Satan : How Americans Have Lost the Sense of Evil
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ISBN: 9780374524869

ISBN-10: 0374524866

ISBN-13: 9780374524869

Edition: N/A

Authors: Andrew Delbanco

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In a spiritual biography of America, Delbanco shows how writers of the past 3 centuries have depicted evil and how they have tried to defy and subdue it. He shows the strategies by which writers such as Cotton Mather, Jefferson and Lincoln, Emerson and Melville, Thoreau and Whitman, Niebuhr and Trilling, Rachel Carson and Susan Sontag, have recognized and done battle with evil. One way of talking about evil is to demonize and satanize it, understanding evil as something remote. But Satan is sometimes a symbol of our own deficient love, our potential for envy and rancor toward creation. We have always been engaged in a contest between these 2 ways of understanding evil.

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List price: $13.00
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

Introduction	p. 3
The Old Enemy Comes to the New World	p. 23
The Devil in the Age of Reason	p. 57
The Birth of the Self	p. 91
The Loss of Providence	p. 125
The Age of Blame	p. 155
The Culture of Irony	p. 185
Prospects	p. 219
Notes	p. 237
Acknowledgments	p. 263
Index	p. 265
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