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9780742508453

Wicked Pleasures Meditations on the Seven 'Deadly' Sins

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  • ISBN13:

    9780742508453

  • ISBN10:

    0742508455

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2000-12-20
  • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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Summary

The seven deadly sins have provided gossip, amusement, and the plots of morality plays for nearly fifteen hundred years. In Wicked Pleasures, well-known philosopher, business ethicist, and admitted sinner Robert C. Solomon brings together a varied group of contributors for a new look at an old catalogue of sins. Solomon introduces the sins as a group, noting their popularity and pervasiveness. From the formation of the canon by Pope Gregory the Great, the seven have survived the sermonizing of the Reformation, the Inquisition, the Enlightenment, the brief French reign of supreme reason, the apotheoses of capitalism, communism, secular humanism and postmodernism, the writings of numerous rabbis and evangelical moralists, two series in the New York Times, and several bad movies. Taking their cue from this remarkable history, the contributors, allowed one sin apiece, provide a non-sermonizing and relatively light-hearted romp through the domain of the deadly seven.

Table of Contents

Preface vii
Introduction 1(18)
Robert C. Solomon
Gluttony
19(32)
William Ian Miller
Pride
51(30)
Jerome Neu
Sloth
81(6)
Thomas Pynchon
Greed
87(30)
James Ogilvy
Anger
117(16)
Elizabeth V. Spelman
Lust
133(8)
William H. Gass
Envy
141(20)
Don Herzog
Index 161(4)
About the Contributors 165

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