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Shaming the devil : essays in truthtelling
- Title
- Shaming the devil : essays in truthtelling / Alan Jacobs.
- Author
- Jacobs, Alan, 1958-
- Publication
- Grand Rapids, Mich. : W.B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., [2004], ©2004.
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- Description
- xv, 231 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Shaming the Devil offers a series of reflections that explore how hard it is to tell the truth about the world of culture - and how central that task is to the Christian life." "Employing the literary essay as a means for cultural criticism and using other writers and thinkers as friends and foils in his quest, Alan Jacobs revisits the question asked by Pilate and so many others throughout history: "What is truth?"" "In the first part of the book, Jacobs contemplates the work of people whom he takes to be exemplary truth seekers: Rebecca West, W. H. Auden, Albert Camus, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Linda Gregerson, and Leon Kass. He then engages writers who challenge the search for truth: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Iris Murdoch, Wole Soyinka, Philip Pullman, and Anne Carson. The third section of the book consists of a single lengthy essay that pursues the provocative question of whether today's computer technology helps or hinders us in our pursuit of truth."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-231).
- Contents
- Shame the Devil -- Auden's happy eye -- Camus : wisdom and courage -- The witness -- The judgment of grace -- The genesis of wisdom -- The only honest man -- Iris Murdoch's added vowel -- Wole Soyinka's outrage -- the republic of heaven -- The re-invention of love -- Computer control (the virtues of resistance).
- ISBN
- 080284894X (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2004050608
- OCLC
- ocm55600651
- SCSB-5085780
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries