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The Idea of Evil

ISBN: 978-1-4051-1704-3
Hardcover
264 pages
November 2007, Wiley-Blackwell
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  • A timely study of the idea of evil, written by a leading philosopher
  • Surveys the intellectual debate on the nature of evil over the past two hundred years
  • Engages with a broad range of discourses and thinkers, from Kant and the German Idealists, via Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, to Levinas and Adorno
  • Suggests that the concept of moral evil touches on a neuralgic point in western culture
  • Argues that, despite the widespread abuse and political manipulation of the term ‘evil’, we cannot do without it
  • Concludes that if we use the concept of evil, we must acknowledge its religious dimension

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