Gavin Rae

Evil in the Western Philosophical Tradition (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

Charting a sweeping history of evil within the Western philosophical tradition, Gavin Rae shows that the problem of evil - as a conceptual problem - came to the fore with the rise of monotheism. Rae traces the problem of evil from early and Medieval Christian philosophy to modern philosophy, German Idealism, post-structuralism and contemporary analytic philosophy and secularisation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. April 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474445344
• Artikelnr.: 72430734

Autorenporträt

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