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Without God [electronic resource] :Michel Houellebecq and materialist horror / Louis Betty.

By: Betty, Louis [author.].
Contributor(s): Project Muse.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2016] 2015)Description: 1 online resource (pages cm).Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780271078090; 027107809X.Subject(s): Houellebecq, Michel -- Criticism and interpretation | Materialism in literature | Religion in literatureGenre/Form: Electronic books. DDC classification: 843/.914 Online resources: Full text available:
Contents:
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.
Summary: "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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

"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.

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