Demurring to Doom: The Geopolitics of Prevailing

In: Territories of Evil
Author:
Lee Quinby
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Pages:
117–131
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1163/9789401205603_009

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This essay focuses on two prevalent and longstanding discourses of evil within U.S. culture, one that emphasizes an apocalyptic sense of doom and divine decree and the other that stresses human agency and social justice. After arguing that apocalyptic literalism is not only reductive but also detrimental, the essay turns to examples of an aesthetic counter tradition in which ambiguity and interdependence are accentuated as foundational to the geopolitics of prevailing.

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Series:  At the Interface / Probing the Boundaries, Volume: 45
Cover Territories of Evil
E-Book ISBN:
9789401205603
Publisher:
Brill
Print Publication Date:
01 Jan 2008

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