When it comes to crime, everyone seems to take evil seriously as an explanatory concept - except criminologists. This book asks why, and why not, through exploring a variety of interdisciplinary approaches to evil from the perspectives of theology, philosophy, literary and cultural studies, and the social sciences.
When it comes to crime, everyone seems to take evil seriously as an explanatory concept - except criminologists. This book asks why, and why not, through exploring a variety of interdisciplinary approaches to evil from the perspectives of theology, philosophy, literary and cultural studies, and the social sciences.
Melissa Dearey is a Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Hull, UK. Her teaching and research interests focus on interdisciplinary theories of crime, deviance and evil, green criminology and competing public and academic explanations of crime.
Inhaltsangabe
Preface 1. Theodicy: Understanding the Problem of Evil 2. Enter the Evil Genius: Encountering Metaphysical Evil 3. Radical Freedom, Radical Evil? Kant's Theory of Evil and the Failure of Theodicy 4. Telling Evil Stories: Understanding Cultural Narratives and Symbols of Evil in the Phenomenological Hermeneutics of Paul Ricoeur 5. 'Something to be scared of' - Evil, the Feminine and Psychoanalytic Theory 6. Evil and Literature: Love and Liberation 7. Doing Evil: Crime, Compulsion, Seduction from the Standpoint of Social Psychology and Anthropology 8. The Banality of Evil: Genocide, Slavery, Holocaust, War 9. The Axis of Evil - the War on Terror, the 'Enemy Within' and the Politics of Evil and the State 10. Book Summary and Touching the Void or Looking Through a Glass Darkly? Evil and Criminology
Preface 1. Theodicy: Understanding the Problem of Evil 2. Enter the Evil Genius: Encountering Metaphysical Evil 3. Radical Freedom, Radical Evil? Kant's Theory of Evil and the Failure of Theodicy 4. Telling Evil Stories: Understanding Cultural Narratives and Symbols of Evil in the Phenomenological Hermeneutics of Paul Ricoeur 5. 'Something to be scared of' - Evil, the Feminine and Psychoanalytic Theory 6. Evil and Literature: Love and Liberation 7. Doing Evil: Crime, Compulsion, Seduction from the Standpoint of Social Psychology and Anthropology 8. The Banality of Evil: Genocide, Slavery, Holocaust, War 9. The Axis of Evil - the War on Terror, the 'Enemy Within' and the Politics of Evil and the State 10. Book Summary and Touching the Void or Looking Through a Glass Darkly? Evil and Criminology
Es gelten unsere Allgemeinen Geschäftsbedingungen: www.buecher.de/agb
Impressum
www.buecher.de ist ein Internetauftritt der buecher.de internetstores GmbH
Geschäftsführung: Monica Sawhney | Roland Kölbl | Günter Hilger
Sitz der Gesellschaft: Batheyer Straße 115 - 117, 58099 Hagen
Postanschrift: Bürgermeister-Wegele-Str. 12, 86167 Augsburg
Amtsgericht Hagen HRB 13257
Steuernummer: 321/5800/1497
USt-IdNr: DE450055826
