Research Catalog

Title

On the way to death : essays toward a comic vision / A. Roy Eckardt.

Author

Eckardt, A. Roy (Arthur Roy), 1918-1998

Publication

New Brunswick, N.J. : Transaction Publishers, [1996].

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Details

Description

xi, 180 pages; 24 cm

Summary

• On the Way to Death completes Eckardt's astonishing trilogy on the interrelationship of comedy, death, and God. It addresses itself to the question of death as the basic incongruity of life. Here is opened to human view the final divine comedy: a total reversal of the traditional roles assigned to God and humankind, a comical denouncement of the terror of death. On the Way to Death follows Sitting in the Earth and Laughing and How to Tell God From the Devil to complete A.
• Roy Eckardt's trilogy on comedy, the devil, and God.
• Soren Kierkegaard attests that "it is only by the deepest suffering that one acquires true authority in the use of the comic." Composed within this frame of reference, the foundation of this volume is its analysis of the terror of death for human beings. In this context, Eckardt maintains that the all-decisive truth is that humankind never asked to be, but has been thrown into existence.
• Accordingly, it is immoral - or even diabolical - to blame human beings for the terrible evils of life, including the specter of death. Human beings are proximately responsible for evil, but never ultimately responsible.

Subject

• Comic, The > Religious aspects > Christianity
• Death > Religious aspects > Christianity
• Tod
• Christliche Philosophie
• Religion
• Komik

Note

• Final part of a trilogy, of which the first part was Sitting in the earth and laughing, and the second part was How to tell God from the Devil.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. The Ugliest Customer -- 2. A Word for Comic Vision -- 3. Poor God -- 4. Before the Beginning, In the Beginning -- 5. Hither and Yon: Twenty-One Divine Adventures -- 6. Fall of God -- Angel of Death -- Triplets of History -- 7. Crime -- Trial -- Sentence -- (Secret) -- 8. Comedy of Expiation? Comedy of Redemption? -- 9. The Easter Monday of the Imperfect Fool -- 10. How To Spend the Day After Easter -- 11. A Vision Begun.

ISBN

• 1560002344
• 9781560002345

LCCN

95037826

OCLC

• ocm33078174
• 33078174
• SCSB-2082088

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library