Title: Destined for evil? : the twentieth-century responses /
Authors: Cicovacki, Predrag.
Publisher: University of Rochester Press,
Year: 2005
Subjects: Good and evil.; Ethics, Modern
Abstract: "This collection brings together a variety of responses to the ancient questions of whether we are - individually and collectively - destined for evil. The history of the previous century brought this question into the open more poignantly than perhaps any other before it. Not surprisingly, then, what you will find here is a wide spectrum of opinions concerning the mystery of evil formulated throughout the twentieth century and at the very threshold of the twenty-first, which has inherited all of its open wounds and nightmarish memories."--Jacket.
Contents: pt. 1. Historical perspectives on evil. Two thousand years and no new God / Gil Bailie -- Identifying good and evil / Nicholas Wolsterstorff -- Kant and radical evil / Emil L. Fackenheim -- Uprooting evil and the building of ethical communities / Sharon Anderson-Gold -- The realty of radical evil / Jeffrey B. Russell -- Roads to hell / Susan Neiman -- pt. 2. Confronting evil in our divided world: on genocide, self-destruction, and war. The banality of evil: failing to think / Hannah Arendt -- Ordinary people and extraordinary vices / Tzvetan Todorov -- Are wars inevitable? / Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud -- From relative to absolute evil / Svetozar Stojanović -- Killing in Vietnam: what have we done to our soldiers? / Dave Grossman -- Thou shalt not kill / Hermann Hess -- pt. 3. Facing the darkness within: on our spiritual crisis. Searching for self-knowledge and divine wholeness / Carl Gustav Jung -- Love and cruelty: a blue spot in the middle of the hurricane / Philip Paul Hallie -- Goodness at the heart of being / Michael Lerner -- We are prodigals in a distant land: an essay on Thomas Merton / John P. Collins -- Recovering paradise: Thomas Merton on the self and problem of evil / Thomas Del Prete -- Exposing the deceitful heart: a monk's public "inner work" / Jonathan Montaldo -- pt. 4. Portrayals of evil in art. Lamentations and losses: from New York to Kabul / Daniel Berrigan -- Evil as mystery: primal speech and contemporary poetry / Michael True -- The trial of man and the trial of God: Job and Dostoevsky's Grand Inquisitor / Predrag Cicovacki -- The resurrection of hell / Leo Tolstoy -- The Gulag Archipelago (a fragment) / Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn -- Helen's exile / Albert Camus.