Divine Terror
Divine Terror

Author: Aisha Urooj

Publisher: Aisha Urooj

Published: 2022-03-14

Total Pages: 90

ISBN-13:

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Damon and Saynt are back on Earth again, this time for another tough assignment. They are calling the human a 'divine terror'. Who is the new human, terrorizing angels and demons alike? Now that Damon and Saynt are working for different and opposite realms, can they still work together? Or will their new roles cause strife in their friendship? This is the second book in the Divine Error series (a dark comedy; urban fantasy comedy). Expect more fun, loveable, quirky characters, a handsome adversary, and the return of Mr. Whiskers! Topics: urban fantasy, comedy, humorous fantasy, discworld, good omens, fantasy books, fantasy novel, funny urban fantasy, best urban fantasy, best fantasy Perfect for fans of J.R.R. Tolkien, Brandon Sanderson, P.G. Wodehouse, A. Lee Martinez, Robert Rankin, Douglas Adams, Eoin Colfer, Christopher Moore, Robert Asprin, Ben Aaronovitch, Tom Holt, Terry Pratchett, J.K. Rowling, Jasper Fforde, Neil Gaiman, piers anthony

Giorgio Agamben
Giorgio Agamben

Author: Alex Murray

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2010-11-23

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 1136999639

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Giorgio Agamben is one of the most important and controversial figures in contemporary continental philosophy and critical theory. His work covers a broad array of topics from biblical criticism to Guantanamo Bay and the ‘war on terror’. Alex Murray explains Agamben’s key ideas, including: an overview of his work from first publication to the present clear analysis of Agamben’s philosophy of language and life theories of ethics and ‘witnessing’ the relationship between Agamben’s political writing and his work on aesthetics and poetics. Investigating the relationship between politics, language, literature, aesthetics and ethics, this guide is essential reading for anyone wishing to understand the complex nature of modern political and cultural formations.

In Defense of Lost Causes
In Defense of Lost Causes

Author: Slavoj Zizek

Publisher: Verso Books

Published: 2009-10-19

Total Pages: 540

ISBN-13: 1844674908

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The renowned philosophical sharpshooter looks for the kernel of truth in the fascist politics of the past—offering an adrenaline-fueled manifesto for universal values. Is global emancipation a lost cause? Are universal values outdated relics of an earlier age? In fear of the horrors of totalitarianism, should we submit ourselves to a miserable third way of economic liberalism and government-as-administration? In this combative major work, philosophical sharpshooter Slavoj Žižek takes on the reigning ideology with a plea that we should re-appropriate several “lost causes”—and look for the kernel of truth in the “totalitarian” politics of the past. Examining Heidegger’s seduction by fascism and Foucault’s flirtation with the Iranian Revolution, he suggests that these were the “right steps in the wrong direction.” He argues that while the revolutionary terror of Robespierre, Mao, and the Bolsheviks ended in historic failure and monstrosity, this is not the whole story. There is, in fact, a redemptive moment that gets lost in the outright liberal-democratic rejection of revolutionary authoritarianism and the valorization of soft, consensual, decentralized politics. Žižek claims that, particularly in light of the forthcoming ecological crisis, we should reinvent revolutionary terror and the dictatorship of the proletariat in the struggle for universal emancipation. We need to courageously accept the return to this Cause—even if we court the risk of a catastrophic disaster. In the words of Samuel Beckett: “Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”

The God Ezekiel Creates
The God Ezekiel Creates

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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2015-02-26

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 0567658589

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This powerful collection of essays focuses on the representation of God in the Book of Ezekiel. With topics spanning across projections of God, through to the implications of these creations, the question of the divine presence in Ezekiel is explored. Madhavi Nevader analyses Divine Sovereignty and its relation to creation, while Dexter E. Callender Jnr and Ellen van Wolde route their studies in the image of God, as generated by the character of Ezekiel. The assumption of the title is then inverted, as Stephen L. Cook writes on 'The God that the Temple Blueprint Creates', which is taken to its other extreme by Marvin A. Sweeney in his chapter on 'The Ezekiel that God Creates', and finds a nice reconciliation in Daniel I. Block's chapter, 'The God Ezekiel Wants Us to Meet.' Finally, two essays from Christian biblical scholar Nathan MacDonald and Jewish biblical scholar, Rimon Kasher, offer a reflection on the essays about Ezekiel and his God.

States of Terror
States of Terror

Author: David Simpson

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2019-03-08

Total Pages: 285

ISBN-13: 022660036X

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How have we come to depend so greatly on the words terror and terrorism to describe broad categories of violence? David Simpson offers here a philology of terror, tracking the concept’s long, complicated history across literature, philosophy, political science, and theology—from Plato to NATO. Introducing the concept of the “fear-terror cluster,” Simpson is able to capture the wide range of terms that we have used to express extreme emotional states over the centuries—from anxiety, awe, and concern to dread, fear, and horror. He shows that the choices we make among such words to describe shades of feeling have seriously shaped the attribution of motives, causes, and effects of the word “terror” today, particularly when violence is deployed by or against the state. At a time when terror-talk is widely and damagingly exploited by politicians and the media, this book unpacks the slippery rhetoric of terror and will prove a vital resource across humanistic and social sciences disciplines.

Cultural Experiences of Fear, Horror and Terror
Cultural Experiences of Fear, Horror and Terror

Author: Mark Callaghan

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2019-01-04

Total Pages: 203

ISBN-13: 1848883315

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This volume was first published by Inter-Disciplinary Press in 2016. This volume comprises numerous academic papers concerning essential subjects in relation to fear, horror and terror, from cinematic representations and their subsequent responses, to first person accounts of terror by way of literature and journalism. Key scholars are employed to develop these important research areas as they provide new insights into cultural experiences and evaluations of fear, horror and terror, and their consequent analysis. Contributors also explore cross-cultural fear, the memorialisation of violence, and female experiences of fear represented through literature, theatre, and cinema. Valuable research is also demonstrated by way of the conceptualisation and management of fear, including the control of public fear in relation to mental illness, along with significant insights concerning depictions of sexual violence, the concept of the sublime in relation to the visualisation of the universe, and the relationship between scales of fright and the bulk of the on-screen monster.