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He uses the essay \"The Mirror Stage\" as a starting point to discuss the first theme of the \"Lacanian trinity.\" Eagleton highlights the dubious role played by religion in Western civilization. \"It is true that religion has proven to be one of the most harmful institutions in human history, but this sordid narrative of oppression and superstition is subject to the judgment of the version of Christianity proposed in this book. It is a paradox of our time that, while it has spawned several lethal forms of religious fundamentalism, it has also given rise to a current of radical theology (...) that is often more revolutionary in its political implications than much secular leftist thought,\" he states. The analysis of theories on ethics forged from Aristotle to Alain Badiou and Slavoj Žižek lends even greater depth to the study. The chapters explore the ideas of a wide range of thinkers. By analyzing the second Lacanian register, the Symbolic, the author demonstrates the difference between \"symbolic ethics\" in Spinoza and Kant. Eagleton also investigates the traces of the Lacanian theme, the Real, in the thoughts of Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, and Nietzsche. With solid arguments, he reveals the pros and cons of what he calls the “ethics of heroic failure.”","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47174912999676,"sku":"9788520009482","price":94.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/c77beaa8416518026600ddd0c26d3263_5ce2626e-d9b4-4876-ac76-57b315eafb76.jpg?v=1778321568"},{"product_id":"a-morte-de-deus-na-cultura","title":"The Death of God in Culture","description":"In this thought-provoking The Death of God in Culture, Terry Eagleton explores the contradictions, difficulties, and meanings of God's disappearance in the modern era.\n \nDrawing on a vast spectrum of ideas and problematizations from thinkers from the Enlightenment to the present day, the author discusses the state of religion before and after September 11th; the ironies of Western capitalism, which gave rise to the creation not only of secularism but also of fundamentalism; and the unsatisfactory substitutes that emerged in the post-Enlightenment era to fill the void left by God's absence. With the lucidity and elegance that characterize his style, the author reflects on the unique capacities of religion, the possibility of culture and art as modern paths to salvation, the impact of the so-called war on terror on atheism, and many other topics important to those who envision a future in which merciful communities thrive. The result is a study of modern thought that also serves as a timely and desperately needed intervention in our troubling political daily life, warning us, without hesitation: if God is dead, humanity itself is also coming to an end. Therefore, there wouldn't be much left to disappear.","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47175423557884,"sku":"9788501107541","price":64.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/6348a454fabb4c741a93d6a348263a23_7d531da6-bdfd-4945-acbb-7b86b1fd51e6.jpg?v=1778325760"},{"product_id":"humor","title":"Humor","description":"Humor raises the question of how humor can be simultaneously a form of camaraderie, a glimpse of utopia, and a political weapon to be wielded against the powerful. Why do we laugh? How can we distinguish the infinite variety of possibilities of laughter? Is humor subversive, or can it help to soften disagreements? This study reflects on the nature of humor and its functions, critically examining various theories on the subject. Drawing on a wide range of literary and philosophical sources, Terry Eagleton moves from Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas to Hobbes, Freud, and Bakhtin, looking in particular at the psychoanalytic mechanisms underlying humor and its social and political evolution over the centuries.","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47175505936636,"sku":"9788501117489","price":59.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/f70ddc491c2a614d12ae77c1bf2a7dca_d6c878fc-ed6a-4bbf-af11-f107293c7cfc.jpg?v=1778322091"},{"product_id":"depois-da-teoria","title":"AFTER THEORY","description":"Structuralism, Marxism, post-structuralism, and the like are no longer the exciting subjects they once were. Instead, sex is the instigator. Soft-spoken, middle-class students crowd libraries or clog web traffic to research sensationalist topics like vampirism, child pornography, cloning, and cable TV dramas. The boundaries between low and high culture are no longer guarded, and barriers have been dismantled. The golden age of cultural theory is long gone. In *After Theory*, Terry Eagleton—considered one of today's greatest left-wing intellectuals—offers a frank assessment of the losses and gains of cultural theory, countering many of the common criticisms against it but also claiming that it was evasive or ineffective on several vital issues. Tracing its rise and fall from the 1960s to the 1990s, the author explores the cultural and political factors that produced it. Eagleton revisits the pioneering works of Lacan, Lévi-Strauss, Barthes, and Foucault. The groundbreaking early writings of Kristeva, Derrida, and Jameson. How they brought previously unaddressed issues of gender, power, sexuality, and ethnicity to the center of debate. Some of them were overturned. Fate pushed Roland Barthes under a pickup truck and afflicted Michel Foucault with AIDS. It sent Lacan packing. But many of his ideas remain of incomparable value. AFTER THEORY shows how the generations that followed these groundbreaking figures developed these concepts, expanding on them, criticizing them, and applying them. But they arrived without a comparable body of ideas of their own. With his characteristic humor and verve, Eagleton analyzes the harmonious continuity created between the intellect and everyday life. Today, it is possible to study anything around you, but then the question arises: what kind of new thinking does the urgent and calamitous global situation demand? The answer, in the face of the new narrative of capitalism, seems to suggest the death of postmodernism.","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47176263729404,"sku":"9788520006726","price":59.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/0d38793cdc325ec457bd23b8db267b6a_4557d436-75ab-42cc-8769-6a79f69ceb55.jpg?v=1778322490"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.record.com.br\/en\/collections\/terry-eagleton.oembed","provider":"Editora Record","version":"1.0","type":"link"}