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The Idea of Evil

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by Peter Dews
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Availability:In StockContributor:Peter DewsPublish date:2012-10-01Pages:272
Language:EnglishPublisher:Wiley-BlackwellISBN-13:9781118346303ISBN-10:1118346300UPC:9781118346303Book Category:PhilosophyBook Subcategory:Political, Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Good & EvilSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.55 inchesWeight:0.7915Product ID:SCC5DT8H80
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
Language:EnglishPublisher:Wiley-BlackwellISBN-13:9781118346303ISBN-10:1118346300UPC:9781118346303Book Category:PhilosophyBook Subcategory:Political, Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Good & EvilSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.55 inchesWeight:0.7915Product ID:SCC5DT8H80

PETER DEWS is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Essex. He has published widely on 19th and 20th century European thought, with a focus on German Idealism, the Frankfurt School, and recent French philosophy. He is the author of Logics of Disintegration (1987, reissued 2006), and The Limits of Disenchantment (1995). He has also edited and introduced two books on the work of Jürgen Habermas: Autonomy and Solidarity: Interviews with Jürgen Habermas (1986) and Habermas: A Critical Reader (Blackwell, 1999).

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