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THE DEATH OF SATAN: How Americans Have Lost the Sense of Evil
User Review - KirkusIn a brilliant review of how American writers of the last two centuries have confronted evil by depicting it, Delbanco (Humanities/Columbia Univ.; The Puritan Ordeal, not reviewed) suggests that our ... Read full review
The death of Satan: how Americans have lost the sense of evil
User Review - Not Available - Book VerdictThat our society absolutely requires a sense of evil to maintain its cultural center forms this work's hue and cry. Irony, which now permeates our modern sensibilities, has come to dominate not only ... Read full review
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
The Age of Belief | 25 |
The Devil in the Age of Reason | 57 |
The Birth of the Self | 91 |
Modern Times | 139 |
The Age of Blame | 155 |
The Culture of Irony | 185 |
Prospects | 219 |
Notes | 237 |
Acknowledgments | 263 |
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The Death of Satan: How Americans Have Lost the Sense of Evil Andrew Delbanco No preview available - 1995 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Death of Satan: How Americans Have Lost the Sense of Evil |
| Author | Andrew Delbanco |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1996 |
| ISBN | 0374524866, 9780374524869 |
| Length | 274 pages |
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