Shaming The Devil: Essays In Truthtelling
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Language: English
Published by Eerdmans Pub Co, Grand Rapids, Michigan, U.S.A., 2004
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- Title
- Shaming The Devil: Essays In Truthtelling
- Author
- Jacobs, Alan
- Publisher
- Eerdmans Pub Co, Grand Rapids, Michigan, U.S.A.
- Publication year
- 2004
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 080284894X
- ISBN 13
- 9780802848949
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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.
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.
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About the Author
Alan Jacobs is a professor of English at Wheaton College in Illinois.
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