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Law and evil [[electronic resource] ] : philosophy, politics, psychoanalysis / / edited by Ari Hirvonen and Janne Porttikivi



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Titolo: Law and evil [[electronic resource] ] : philosophy, politics, psychoanalysis / / edited by Ari Hirvonen and Janne Porttikivi Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2009
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (317 p.)
Disciplina: 340/.1
Soggetto topico: Good and evil
Law - Philosophy
Classificazione: 5,1
CC 7200
CC 7600
Altri autori: HirvonenAri <1960->  
PorttikiviJanne  
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgement; Contributors; Chapter 1 Introduction; Part I Freedom; Chapter 2 Eden/Shangri-la; Chapter 3 Tragedy and evil: From Hölderlin 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
Chapter 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
Chapter 14 'That which in life might prefer death ... ': From the death drive to the desire of the analystBibliography; Index
Sommario/riassunto: Law 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
Titolo autorizzato: Law and evil  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-135-26819-3
1-282-31608-7
9786612316081
0-203-86746-7
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910778467703321
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