Freedom as an Uncertain Cause in Graham Greenes Novels. A Philosophical and Literary Analysis

Contens
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter One
Philosophical, Religious and Literary Horizons in Greene s Novels
1.The Philosophical Horizon
1.1. Man as a contingent and finite being
1.2. Freedom as a Specific Human Value
1.3. Other Aspects of Freedom
1.4. The Philosophy of Consciousness and Freedom as Self-Realization
2. The Religious Horizon
2.1. Creation and the Fall
2.2. The Reality of Sin
2.3. The Church and the Sacraments
3. The Literary Horizon
Chapter Two
Greene s Milieu as a Concrete Perspective on Man
1. The Difficulties of the Circumstances
1.1. A Land of Cruelty and Crime
1.2. A Land of Pursuit and Execution
1.3. A Land of Heat and Entrapment
2. Greene s People
2.1. Credo in unum satanum
2.2. Corruptio optimi est pessima
2.3. Dona nobis pacem
Chapter Three
The Recognition of the Truth Within Greene s Milieu
1. Pride
2. Pity
3. Despair
4. Comedy of Errors
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index of Proper Names