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Pride: The Seven Deadly Sins: New York Public Library Lectures in Humanities

Autor Michael Eric Dyson
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 2 mar 2006
"Pride goeth before destruction, a hoaughty spirit before a mighty fall." As the biblical fall of Satan suggests, pride as a defining symptom of self-preoccupation follows a paradoxical route at which end lies self-destruction. Dyson explores the fate of pride from Christian theology to the social responsibilities of self-regard and regard for the society as a whole. Pride is also vain glory, or the inordinate obsession with one's existence, body and intellect, which becomes the playground for human vanity. Dyson examines how pride, within black communities, becomes a necessary and ironic defense against a culture that at once formally rejected it in their vreligious beliefs but embraced it in their social realtions. As a result, blacks were ensconced, implicated, even embroiled, in the West's schizophrenic views of the deadly sin. Dyson will explore all these moments of pride, attempting to probe the contradictory facets of a vice that in some instances became a celebrated virtue, and a virtue among some cultures that ultimately became a vice.
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ISBN-13: 9780195160925
ISBN-10: 0195160924
Pagini: 160
Ilustrații: 8 line drawings
Dimensiuni: 180 x 132 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Seria New York Public Library Lectures in Humanities

Locul publicării:New York, United States

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