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(3.21) | 2 | 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 greatestcalamity 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 representationsof 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, Tickleshows 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 asboth 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.… (mere) |
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Ingen ▾Bogbeskrivelser 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 greatestcalamity 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 representationsof 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, Tickleshows 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 asboth 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. ▾Biblioteksbeskrivelser af bogens indhold No library descriptions found. ▾LibraryThingmedlemmers beskrivelse af bogens indhold
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La primicia de la contraportada simplemente no se cumple:
En este libro lúcido y apasionante, Phyllis A. Tickle aduce que la avaricia es «la matriarca del clan de los pecados capitales», el origen de la soberbia, la envidia, la gula, la lujuria y la ira. Demuestra que las religiones más importantes, desde el hinduismo hasta el cristianismo, pasando por el taoísmo y el budismo, consideran la avaricia como la mayor desgracia en la que pueden caer los seres humanos, la que engendra más pecados y aniquila todas las virtudes. Tickle adopta una perspectiva muy amplia de la avaricia, desde san Pablo hasta la actualidad, y se centra especialmente en las cambiantes e imaginativas representaciones de la avaricia en la literatura y el arte occidentales. Observando obras como la Psychomachia, o la «Batalla del alma», del poeta del siglo V Aurelio Prudencio Clemente, los cuadros de Peter Bruegel y de Hyeronimus Bosch, o la película de Oliver Stone Wall Street, Tickle describe cómo han evolucionado nuestras percepciones al respecto: la visión de la avaricia como un enemigo espiritual en la Edad Media, como una construcción sociológica en el siglo XIX, como una deficiencia psicológica a principios del siglo XX, y, en fin, como un misterio en la actualidad, convincentemente expresado en las pinturas místicas contemporáneas de Mario Donizetti, aquellas que muestran la avaricia como algo tan trágico como hermoso.Es una lastima que se dedicaran solo 50 paginas y una 20 en notas a una pecado tan interesante, que por cierto estas notas y comentarios al final del libro aunque son muy eruditas son difíciles de seguir e incomodas de buscar. Este es un pecado muy vivo actualmente, simplemente le falto verlo en todos eso escándalos financieros, en las guerras de conquista y colonización, y los graves problemas por el control del petróleo, el libro termina siendo un ensayo muy corto, ambiguo, y difícil de leer, una oportunidad perdida para hablar de este mal inagotable en las entrañas del ser humano. (