Law and evil
Subtitle: philosophy, politics, psychoanalysis
By: edited by Ari Hirvonen and Janne Porttikivi.
Contributors: Hirvonen, Ari, 1960-; Porttikivi, Janne.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780415497916
Subjects: Good and evil; Law -- Philosophy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: I: Freedom; title: Eden/Shangri-la / Angus McDonald; title: Tragedy and evil : from Holderlin to Heidegger / Françoise Dastur; title: Interrupting evil and the evil of interruption-revisiting the question of freedom / Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback; title: Wickedness inscribed in freedom : Jean-Luc Nancy on evil / Sami Santanen; title: Arche-evil : Derrida's philosophy explained through the concept of evil / Jari Kauppinen; title: II: Terror; title: Hell on earth : Hannah Arendt in the face of Hitler / Jacob Rogozinski; title: Total evil : the law under totalitarianism / Ari Hirvonen; title: The birth of terrorism out of the spirit of Enlightenment : the subject of Enlightenment and the terrorist sensorium / Artemy Magun; title: The catechism of the citizen : politics, law, and religion in, after, with, and against Rousseau / Simon Critchley; title: III: Desire; title: What's so funny about infinite justice / Janne Porttikivi; title: Moralization interrupted : on Lacan's thesis of the supreme good as radical evil / Maec de Kesel; title: When psychoanalysis meets law and evil : perversion and psychopathy in the forensic clinic / Jochem Willemsen and Paul Verhaeghe; title: That which in life might prefer death : from the death drive to the desire of the analyst / Véronique Voruz.