Women and evil [[electronic resource] /] / Nel Noddings

• Autore: Noddings Nel
• Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c1989
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (295 p.)
• Disciplina: 170/.88042
• Soggetto topico: Good and evil; Women; Feminism
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-272) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Evil and Ethical Terror -- 2. The Devil's Gateway -- 3. The Angel in the House -- 4. Toward a Phenomenology of Evil -- 5. Pain as Natural Evil -- 6. Helplessness: The Pain of Poverty -- 7. War -- 8. Terrorism, Torture, and Psychological Abuse -- 9. Educating for a Morality of Evil -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Human beings love to fictionalize evil--to terrorize each other with stories of defilement, horror, excruciating pain, and divine retribution. Beneath the surface of bewitchment and half-sick amusement, however, lies the realization that evil is real and that people must find a way to face and overcome it. What we require, Carl Jung suggested, is a morality of evil--a carefully thought out plan by which to manage the evil in ourselves, in others, and in whatever deities we posit. This book is not written from a Jungian perspective, but it is nonetheless an attempt to describe a morality of evil. One suspects that descriptions of evil and the so-called problem of evil have been thoroughly suffused with male interests and conditioned by masculine experience. This result could hardly have been avoided in a sexist culture, and recognizing the truth of such a claim does not commit us to condemn every male philosopher and theologian who has written on the problem. It suggests, rather, that we may get a clearer view of evil if we take a different standpoint. The standpoint I take here will be that of women; that is, I will attempt to describe evil from the perspective of women's experience.
• Titolo autorizzato: Women and evil
• ISBN: 1-282-35603-8; 9786612356032; 0-520-91120-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910455054803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II