Gavin Rae analyses the history of Western conceptions of evil, showing it to be remarkably complex, differentiated and contested. He traces the problem of evil from early and Medieval Christian philosophy to modern philosophy, German Idealism, post-structuralism and contemporary analytic philosophy and secularisation.
Gavin Rae analyses the history of Western conceptions of evil, showing it to be remarkably complex, differentiated and contested. He traces the problem of evil from early and Medieval Christian philosophy to modern philosophy, German Idealism, post-structuralism and contemporary analytic philosophy and secularisation.
Gavin Rae is Senior Visiting Research Professor at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain. He is the author of Critiquing Sovereign Violence (Edinburgh University Press, 2019), Evil in the Western Philosophical Tradition (Edinburgh University Press, 2019), The Problem of Political Foundations in Carl Schmitt and Emanuel Levinas (Palgrave, 2016), Ontology in Heidegger and Deleuze: A Comparative Analysis (Palgrave, 2014) and Realizing Freedom: Hegel, Sartre and the Alienation of Human Being (Palgrave, 2011). He is co-editor of Subjectivity and the Political: Contemporary Perspectives (Routledge, 2018) and The Meanings of Violence: From Critical Theory to Biopolitics (Routledge, 2019).
Inhaltsangabe
Preface Introduction Part I: Theological Foundations 1. The Rise of the Problem of Evil 2. Augustine, Free Will, and Evil 3. Aquinas, Privation, and Original Sin 4. Descartes and the Evil of Error 5. Leibniz and Theodicy: Evil as the Good Part II: From Autonomous Reason to History 6. Kant on Radical Evil 7. Schelling and the Metaphysics of Evil 8. Nietzsche and the Genealogy of Evil Part III: Socialisation and Psychoanalysis 9. Arendt on Evil: From the Radical to the Banal 10. Lacan and the Symbolic Function of Evil 11. Castoriadis: Evil and the Social Imaginary Part IV. The Subjects of Evil 12. The Perpetrators of Evil 13. Remembering the Victims Conclusion Bibliography Index
Preface Introduction Part I: Theological Foundations 1. The Rise of the Problem of Evil 2. Augustine, Free Will, and Evil 3. Aquinas, Privation, and Original Sin 4. Descartes and the Evil of Error 5. Leibniz and Theodicy: Evil as the Good Part II: From Autonomous Reason to History 6. Kant on Radical Evil 7. Schelling and the Metaphysics of Evil 8. Nietzsche and the Genealogy of Evil Part III: Socialisation and Psychoanalysis 9. Arendt on Evil: From the Radical to the Banal 10. Lacan and the Symbolic Function of Evil 11. Castoriadis: Evil and the Social Imaginary Part IV. The Subjects of Evil 12. The Perpetrators of Evil 13. Remembering the Victims Conclusion Bibliography Index
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