Susan Neiman

Broschiertes Buch

Evil in Modern Thought

An Alternative History of Philosophy

Beschreibung

Evil threatens human reason, for it challenges our hope that the world makes sense. For eighteenth-century Europeans, the Lisbon earthquake was manifest evil. Today we view evil as a matter of human cruelty, and Auschwitz as its extreme incarnation. Examining our understanding of evil from the Inquisition to contemporary terrorism, Susan Neiman exp

Autor

Susan Neiman With a new afterword by the author

Produktdetails

• Princeton Classics
• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Revised ed
• Seitenzahl: 408
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. August 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 139mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 426g
• ISBN-13: 9780691168500
• ISBN-10: 0691168504
• Artikelnr.: 42518636

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"Superb... Neiman's claim to have written an alternative history is not an empty boast."—First Things