An edition of The death of Satan (1995)

The death of Satan

how Americans have lost the sense of evil

1st ed.
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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.
  • 4 Want to read

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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274

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Cover of: The Death of Satan
The Death of Satan: How Americans Have Lost the Sense of Evil
October 1996, Noonday Pr
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Cover of: The death of Satan
The death of Satan: how Americans have lost the sense of evil
1995, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Hardcover in English - 1st ed.
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The death of Satan: how Americans have lost the sense of evil
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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

ID Numbers

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

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

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