Pride - The Seven Deadly Sins (Hardcover)

"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.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	New York Public Library Lectures in Humanities
Release date:	March 2006
First published:	February 2006
Authors:	Michael Eric Dyson (Ira B.Wells Professor, and Professor of Religious Studies)
Dimensions:	225 x 145 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	142
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-516092-5
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Equal opportunities Books > Health, Home & Family > Mind, body & spirit > Mind, body, spirit: thought & practice > General Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Ethics & moral philosophy > General Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Christianity > Christian theology > General Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Ethics & moral philosophy > General Books > Religion & Spirituality > Christianity > Christian theology > General Books > Mind, Body & Spirit > Mind, body, spirit: thought & practice > General Books > Christianity > Christian theology Promotions
LSN:	0-19-516092-4
Barcode:	9780195160925

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