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Record Nr.

UNINA9910823632703321

Autore

Haddock Bruce

Titolo

Evil in contemporary political theory / / edited by Bruce Haddock, Peri Roberts and Peter Sutch [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2011

ISBN

0-7486-5286-8

1-78402-721-9

1-283-37009-3

9786613370099

0-7486-5412-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (v, 234 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

320.01

Soggetti

Good and evil - Political aspects

Political science - Philosophy

Political ethics

Humanitarian law

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction / Bruce Haddock, Peri Roberts and Peter Sutch -- Darkness and silence: evil and the Western legacy / John Milbank -- Constructivism and evil / Peri Roberts -- Systemic evil and the limits of pluralism / Bruce Haddock -- Unreasonable or evil? / Kerstin Budde -- Evil in contemporary international political theory: acts that shock the conscience of mankind / Peter Sutch -- Doing evil justly? The morality of justifiable abomination / Mark Evans -- Evil and the Left / Eve Garrard -- The glamour of evil: Dostoyesvsky and the politics of transgression / John Horton -- The rhetoric of moral equivalence / Richard Shorten -- Banal but not benign: Arendt on evil / David Boucher.

Sommario/riassunto

Explores the actual and possible roles of evil in contemporary political theory