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Everyone Loves A Good Train Wreck Eric G Wilson

  • SKU: BELL-48458932
Everyone Loves A Good Train Wreck Eric G Wilson
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Publisher: Sarah Crichton Books
File Extension: PDF
File size: 1.07 MB
Pages: 224
Author: Eric G. Wilson
ISBN: 9780374533700, 0374533709, B009BMGSOU
Language: English
Year: 2013

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Everyone Loves A Good Train Wreck Eric G Wilson by Eric G. Wilson 9780374533700, 0374533709, B009BMGSOU instant download after payment.

Why can't we look away? Whether we admit it or not, we're fascinated by evil. Dark fantasies, morbid curiosities, Schadenfreude: As conventional wisdom has it, these are the symptoms of our wicked side, and we succumb to them at our own peril. What makes these spectacles so irresistible? 

In Everyone Loves A Good Train Wreck, the scholar Eric G. Wilson sets out to discover the source of our attraction to the caustic, drawing on the findings of biologists, sociologists, psychologists, anthropologists, philosophers, theologians, and artists. A professor of English literature and a lifelong student of the macabre, Wilson believes there's something nourishing in darkness. 

"To repress death is to lose the feeling of life," he writes. "A closeness to death discloses our most fertile energies." His examples are legion, and startling in their diversity. Citing everything from elephant graveyards and Susan Sontag's On Photography to the Tiger Woods sex scandal and Steel Magnolias, Wilson finds heartening truths wherever he confronts death. 

In Everyone Loves A Good Train Wreck, the perverse is never far from the sublime. The result is a powerful and delightfully provocative defence of what it means to be human - for better and for worse.

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