LEADER 03625nam 2200661Ia 450 001 9910820525003321 005 20230721022909.0 010 $a1-135-26819-3 010 $a1-282-31608-7 010 $a9786612316081 010 $a0-203-86746-7 035 $a(CKB)1000000000799826 035 $a(EBL)456654 035 $a(OCoLC)526785072 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000339685 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11237897 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000339685 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10365034 035 $a(PQKB)11106604 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC456654 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL456654 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10341915 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL231608 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000799826 100 $a20090331d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aLaw and evil$b[electronic resource] $ephilosophy, politics, psychoanalysis /$fedited by Ari Hirvonen and Janne Porttikivi 210 $aAbingdon, Oxon ;$aNew York $cRoutledge$d2009 215 $a1 online resource (317 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-415-68533-8 311 $a0-415-49791-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aBook Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgement; Contributors; Chapter 1 Introduction; Part I Freedom; Chapter 2 Eden/Shangri-la; Chapter 3 Tragedy and evil: From Ho?lderlin to Heidegger; Chapter 4 Interrupting evil and the evil of interruption: Revisiting the question of freedom; Chapter 5 Wickedness inscribed in freedom: Jean-Luc Nancy on evil; Chapter 6 Arche-evil: Derrida's philosophy explained through the concept of evil; Part II Terror; Chapter 7 Hell on earth: Hannah Arendt in the face of Hitler; Chapter 8 Total evil: The law under totalitarianism 327 $aChapter 9 The birth of terrorism out of the spirit of the Enlightenment: The subject of Enlightenment and the terrorist sensoriumChapter 10 The catechism of the citizen: Politics, law and religion in, after, with and against Rousseau; Part III Desire; Chapter 11 What's so funny about Infinite Justice?; Chapter 12 Moralization interrupted: On Lacan's thesis of 'the supreme good as radical evil'; Chapter 13 When psychoanalysis meets Law and Evil: Perversion and psychopathy in the forensic clinic 327 $aChapter 14 'That which in life might prefer death ... ': From the death drive to the desire of the analystBibliography; Index 330 $aLaw and Evil opens, expands and deepens our understanding of the phenomenon of evil by addressing the theoretical relationship between this phenomenon and law. Hannah Arendt said 'the problem of evil will be the fundamental question of post-war intellectual life in Europe'. This statement is, unfortunately, more than valid in the contemporary world: not only in the events of war, crimes against humanity, terror, repression, criminality, violence, torture, human trafficking, and so on; but also as evil is used rhetorically to condemn these acts, to categorise their perpetrators, and 606 $aGood and evil 606 $aLaw$xPhilosophy 615 0$aGood and evil. 615 0$aLaw$xPhilosophy. 676 $a340/.1 686 $a5,1$2ssgn 686 $aCC 7200$2rvk 686 $aCC 7600$2rvk 701 $aHirvonen$b Ari$f1960-$01610318 701 $aPorttikivi$b Janne$01610319 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910820525003321 996 $aLaw and evil$93938044 997 $aUNINA