Evil After Postmodernism

Histories, Narratives and Ethics
1. Auflage 2000
ISBN: 978-0-415-22816-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 128 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 209 g

These six essays form a stimulating and lucid investigation of the meaning of evil in the light of postmodern thought, and of the cultural and social changes of the modern age. They consider subjects such as the war in Bosnia, AIDS, and the Holocaust.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Geddes, Jennifer

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Metaphysik, Ontologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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;

Über Autor(innen)

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