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Without God: Michel Houellebecq and materialist horror

✍ Scribed by Betty, Louis;Houellebecq, Michel


Publisher
The Pennsylvania State University Press
Year
2016
Tongue
English
Weight
154 KB
Category
Fiction
City
University Park, Pennsylvania
ISBN
027107809X

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✦ Synopsis


"Addresses the religious, metaphysical, and existential dimensions of French novelist Michel Houellebecq's work. Argues that Houellebecq is the foremost contemporary chronicler of the spiritual anxieties of Western and specifically French modernity"--Provided by publisher;Introduction : the Houellebecquian worldview -- Materialism and secularism -- The future of religion -- Religion and utopia -- Materialist horror -- Liberalism is God and the West is its prophet.

✦ Subjects


Houellebecq, Michel


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