Making Sense of Evil [electronic resource] : An Interdisciplinary Approach /
Dearey, Melissa.author.
When it comes to crime, everyone seems to take evil seriously as an explanatory concept - except criminologists. This book asks why, and why not, through exploring a variety of interdisciplinary approaches to evil from the perspectives of theology, philosophy, literary and cultural studies, and the social sciences.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Acknowledgements; Preface; Part I: Evil in Philosophy, Theology and Religion; 1 Theodicy: Understanding the Problem of Evil; 2 Enter the Evil Genius: Encountering Metaphysical Evil; 3 Radical Freedom, Radical Evil? Kant's Theory of Evil and the Failure of Theodicy; Part II: Evil and Narrative; 4 Telling Evil Stories: Understanding Cultural Narratives and Symbols of Evil in the Phenomenological Hermeneutics of Paul Ricoeur; 5 'Something to be scared of'-Evil, the Feminine and Psychoanalytic Theory; 6 Evil and Literature: Love and Liberation
Part III: Evil and the Social Sciences7 Doing Evil: Crime, Compulsion and Seduction From the Standpoint of Social Psychology and Anthropology; 8 The Banality of Evil: Genocide, Slavery, Holocaust and War; 9 The Axis of Evil-the War on Terror, the 'Enemy Within' and the Politics of Evil and the State; 10 Conclusion: Touching the Void or Looking Through a Glass Darkly? Evil and Criminology; References; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
When it comes to crime, everyone seems to take evil seriously as an explanatory concept - except criminologists. This book asks why, and why not, through exploring a variety of interdisciplinary approaches to evil from the perspectives of theology, philosophy, literary and cultural studies, and the social sciences.
Criminology.
Personality.
Social psychology.
Crime—Sociological aspects.
Religion.
Ethics.
Criminological Theory.
Personality and Social Psychology.
Crime and Society.
Criminology and Criminal Justice, general.
Religious Studies, general.
Ethics.