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"Pride goeth before destruction, a hoaughty spirit before a mighty fall." As the biblical fall of Satan suggests, pride as a defining symptom of self-preoccupation follows a paradoxical route at which end lies self-destruction. Dyson explores the fate of pride from Christian theology to the social responsibilities of self-regard and regard for the society as a whole. Pride is also vain glory, or the inordinate obsession with one's existence, body and intellect, which becomes the playground for human vanity. Dyson examines how pride, within black communities, becomes a necessary and ironic defense against a culture that at once formally rejected it in their vreligious beliefs but embraced it in their social realtions. As a result, blacks were ensconced, implicated, even embroiled, in the West's schizophrenic views of the deadly sin. Dyson will explore all these moments of pride, attempting to probe the contradictory facets of a vice that in some instances became a celebrated virtue, and a virtue among some cultures that ultimately became a vice.

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Book category Books in English Humanities Religion & beliefs Christianity

• Full title: Pride
• Subtitle: The Seven Deadly Sins
• Author: Michael Eric Dyson
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 160
• EAN: 9780195160925
• ISBN: 0195160924
• ID: 04515919
• Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
• Weight: 306 g
• Dimensions: 148 × 226 × 11 mm
• Date of publishing: 02. March 2006

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