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Record Nr.

UNINA9911018827303321

Autore

Dews Peter

Titolo

The idea of evil / / Peter Dews

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : Blackwell, c2008

ISBN

9786611069070

9781118394229

1118394224

9781281069078

1281069078

9780470691830

0470691832

9780470765906

0470765909

Edizione

[Paperback edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (ix, 253 pages)

Disciplina

170

Soggetti

Good and evil

Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Formerly CIP.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Kant : the perversion of freedom -- Fichte and Schelling : entangled in nature -- Hegel : a wry theodicy -- Schopenhauer and Nietzsche : suffering from meaninglessness -- Levinas : ethics à l'outrance -- Adorno : radical evil as a category of the social.

Sommario/riassunto

Engaging with a range of thinkers, from Kant, via Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, to Levinas and Adorno, Dews suggests that the concept of moral evil touches on a neuralgic point in Western culture, arguing that, despite the widespread abuse and political manipulation of the term 'evil', we cannot do without it.