Dews The Idea of Evil

1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-118-39422-9
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 264 Seiten, E-Book

This timely book by philosopher Peter Dews explores the idea ofevil, one of the most problematic terms in the contemporary moralvocabulary.
* Surveys the intellectual debate on the nature of evil over thepast two hundred years
* Engages with a broad range of discourses and thinkers, fromKant and the German Idealists, via Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, toLevinas and Adorno
* Suggests that the concept of moral evil touches on a neuralgicpoint in western culture
* Argues that, despite the widespread abuse and politicalmanipulation of the term 'evil', we cannot do withoutit
* Concludes that if we use the concept of evil, we mustacknowledge its religious dimension

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dews, Peter

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Abbreviations vi
Preface viii
Introduction 1
1 Kant: The Perversion of Freedom 17
2 Fichte and Schelling: Entangled in Nature 46
3 Hegel: A Wry Theodicy 81
4 Schopenhauer and Nietzsche: Suffering from Meaninglessness118
5 Levinas: Ethics à l'Outrance 158
6 Adorno: Radical Evil as a Category of the Social 187
Conclusion 212
Bibliography 235
Index 246

Über Autor(innen)

Peter Dews is Professor of Philosophy at the University ofEssex. He has published widely on 19th and 20th century Europeanthought, with a focus on German Idealism, the Frankfurt School, andrecent French philosophy. He is the author of Logics ofDisintegration (1987, reissued 2006), and The Limits ofDisenchantment (1995). He has also edited and introduced twobooks on the work of Jürgen Habermas: Autonomy andSolidarity: Interviews with Jürgen Habermas (1986) andHabermas: A Critical Reader (Blackwell, 1999).