Rethinking Evil: Contemporary PerspectivesMaría Pía Lara "In an environment in which philosophy increasingly shies away from the big questions, this volume takes them on in a conscientious, analytical, and enlightening way. For Lara, the problem is not just that human beings suffer but that other human beings intentionally want to make them suffer, and to suffer in such extreme ways that the explanations offered by natural and social science seem as insufficient as those offered by older theodicies. The volume makes for engrossing reading; it sheds new light on an age-old issue."—Georgia Warnke, author of Legitimate Differences "An important work because it inaugurates a distinctive secular approach to the problem of evil, which has generally been the province of theology and the philosophy of religion."—David M. Rasmussen, editor of The Handbook of Critical Theory |
Contents
Isabel Cabrera | 17 |
The Polyhedron of Evil | 101 |
Arendt and the Final Solution | 131 |
Getting beyond Modernist | 153 |
A Meditation on Radical Evil | 173 |
Major Offenders Minor Offenders | 189 |
On Pain the Suffering of Wrong | 198 |
A New Form of Banality | 210 |
Narratives of Evil | 225 |
A Postmetaphysical Theory | 239 |
NOTES | 251 |
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS | 295 |
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