Confronting Evil: The Psychology of Secularization in Modern French Literature (Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures)
Scott M Powers
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Paperback. Argues that the concept of evil is central to the psychology of secularism. Scott M. Powers draws on notions of secularization as a phenomenon of ambivalence or dualism in which religion continues to exist alongside secularity in exerting influence on modern French thought. Series: Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures. Num Pages: 179 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 431.
Confronting Evil: The Psychology of Secularization in Modern French Literature holds that the concept of evil is central to the psychology of secularism. Drawing on notions of secularization as a phenomenon of ambivalence or dualism in which religion continues to exist alongside secularity in exerting influence on modern French thought, author Scott M. Powers enlists psychoanalytic theory on mourning and sublimation, the philosophical concept of the sublime, Charles Taylor’s theory of religious and secular “cross-pressures,” and William James’s psychology of conversion to account for the survival of religious themes in Baudelaire, Zola, Huysmans, and Céline. For Powers, Baudelaire’s prose poems, ... Read more
Confronting Evil: The Psychology of Secularization in Modern French Literature holds that the concept of evil is central to the psychology of secularism. Drawing on notions of secularization as a phenomenon of ambivalence or dualism in which religion continues to exist alongside secularity in exerting influence on modern French thought, author Scott M. Powers enlists psychoanalytic theory on mourning and sublimation, the philosophical concept of the sublime, Charles Taylor’s theory of religious and secular “cross-pressures,” and William James’s psychology of conversion to account for the survival of religious themes in Baudelaire, Zola, Huysmans, and Céline. For Powers, Baudelaire’s prose poems, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Purdue University Press
Condition
New
Series
Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures
Number of Pages
179
Place of Publication
West Lafayette, United States
ISBN
9781557537416
SKU
V9781557537416
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About Scott M Powers
Scott M. Powers is an associate professor of French at the University of Mary Washington, USA. He has authored several articles on modern and postmodern treatments of evil and secularization in Baudelaire, Zola, Céline, Beigbeder, and Littell. Powers also edited a volume devoted to evil in contemporary French and Francophone literature. Research areas that intersect with his investigations into French ... Read more
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