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The Faust Myth - Religion and the Rise of Representation (Hardcover, 2007 ed.)
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The Faust Myth - Religion and the Rise of Representation (Hardcover, 2007 ed.)
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This book argues that the world has sold its soul to Satan. To make
this case, Hawkes undertakes a careful, precise analysis of what
the terms 'soul' and 'Satan' have meant historically. Focusing on
the story of Dr. Faustus, which he argues is the definitive myth of
the modern era, Hawkes claims that the autonomous, individual human
subject has become dissolved in a sea of representation. The system
of performative signs that we call 'the market' functions today as
an openly magical power, existing only in our minds, but ruling the
world nonetheless, and systematically extinguishing the essence of
humanity. Hawkes describes how this situation has arisen using a
wide-ranging, trans-national account of the versions of Faust
presented by Marlowe, Calderon, Milton, Moliere, Goethe, Byron,
Dostoevsky, Wilde, Thomas Mann, Ngugi Wa'Thiongo and Salman
Rushdie. Literary scholars, historians, philosophers and even
economists will find fascination and instruction in this
comprehensive, original book.
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