 The Idea of Evil
ISBN: 978-1-4051-1704-3
Hardcover
264 pages
December 2007, Wiley-Blackwell
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This timely book by philosopher Peter Dews explores the idea of evil, one of the most problematic terms in the contemporary moral vocabulary.
* Surveys the intellectual debate on the nature of evil over the past two hundred years
* Engages with a broad range of discourses and thinkers, from Kant and the German Idealists, via Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, to Levinas and Adorno
* Suggests that the concept of moral evil touches on a neuralgic point in western culture
* Argues that, despite the widespread abuse and political manipulation of the term 'evil', we cannot do without it
* Concludes that if we use the concept of evil, we must acknowledge its religious dimension
* Surveys the intellectual debate on the nature of evil over the past two hundred years
* Engages with a broad range of discourses and thinkers, from Kant and the German Idealists, via Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, to Levinas and Adorno
* Suggests that the concept of moral evil touches on a neuralgic point in western culture
* Argues that, despite the widespread abuse and political manipulation of the term 'evil', we cannot do without it
* Concludes that if we use the concept of evil, we must acknowledge its religious dimension
