Jennifer Geddes

Evil after Postmodernism

Histories, Narratives and Ethics

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Produktbeschreibung

In "Evil After Postmodernism, " six distinguished scholars address our understanding of evil in the light of postmodern thought, asking what might be lost in losing the concept of evil and what dangers might be incurred by continuing to use it. The essays in this volume are organized around three themes: the histories, narratives, and ethics of evil. In each section, the first essay illustrates theoretical difficulties thinking about evil faces in the postmodern age, while the second offers a constructive response to that difficulty. Contributors include Berel Lang, Larry D. Bouchard, Roger Shattuck, David B. Morris, Thomas Cushman, and Richard Kearney.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 128
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Dezember 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 54g
• ISBN-13: 9780415228152
• ISBN-10: 0415228158
• Artikelnr.: 21637611

Autorenporträt

Jennifer Geddes is the Hannah Arendt Fellow at the Institute for Advance Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction, Jennifer L. Geddes
Part 1 Histories
Chapter 2 Evil Inside and Outside History, Berel Lang
Chapter 3 On Contingency and Culpability, Larry D. Bouchard
Part 2 Narratives
Chapter 4 Narrating Evil, Roger Shattuck
Chapter 5 The Plot of Suffering, David B. Morris
Part 3 Ethics
Chapter 6 The Reflexivity of Evil, Thomas Cushman
Chapter 7 Others and Aliens, Richard Kearney