Pride: The Seven Deadly Sins

di Michael Eric Dyson (Autore)

Oxford University Press Inc, 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.

• Autore: Michael Eric Dyson
• Editore: Oxford University Press Inc
• Collana: New York Public Library Lectures in Humanities
• Anno: 2006
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 160 p.
• Dimensioni: 132 x 180 mm
• Peso: 340 gr.
• EAN: 9780195160925

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