Grasping. Avarice. Covetousness. Miserliness. Insatiable cupidity.
Overreaching ambition. Desire spun out of control. The deadly sin
of Greed goes by many names, appears in many guises, and wreaks
havoc on individuals and nations alike.
In this lively and generous book, Phyllis A. Tickle argues that
Greed is "the Matriarch of the Deadly Clan," the ultimate source of
Pride, Envy, Sloth, Gluttony, Lust, and Anger. She shows that the
major faiths, from Hinduism and Taoism to Buddhism and Christianity
regard Greed as the greatest calamity humans can indulge in,
engendering further sins and eviscerating all virtues. As the Sikh
holy book Adi Granth asks: "Where there is greed, what love can
there be?" Tickle takes a long view of Greed, from St. Paul to the
present, focusing particularly on changing imaginative
representations of Greed in Western literature and art. Looking at
such works as the Psychomachia, or "Soul Battle" of the
fifth-century poet Aurelius Clemens Prudentius, the paintings of
Peter Bruegel and Hieronymous Bosch, the 1987 film Wall Street, and
the contemporary Italian artist Mario Donizetti, Tickle shows how
our perceptions have evolved from the medieval understanding of
Greed as a spiritual enemy to a nineteenth-century sociological
construct to an early twentieth-century psychological deficiency,
and finally to a new view, powerfully articulated in Donizetti's
mystical paintings, of Greed as both tragic and beautiful.
Engaging, witty, brilliantly insightful, Greed explores the full
range of this deadly sin's subtle, chameleon-like qualities, and
the enormous destructive power it wields, evidenced all too clearly
in the world today.
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