Evil in Modern Thought
Subtitle: An Alternative History of Philosophy
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: July 1, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780691096087
Subjects: Ethics & Moral Philosophy; Metaphysics & ontology; Philosophy, Modern; History; Philosophy; Good & Evil; History & Surveys - Modern; European History; Philosophy / Modern; Political Philosophy; Religion; Good and evil
Description: "Evil threatens human reason, for it challenges our hope that the world makes sense. For eighteenth-century Europeans, the Lisbon earthquake was manifest evil. Today we view evil as a matter of human cruelty, and Auschwitz as its extreme incarnation. Examining our understanding of evil from the Inquisition to contemporary terrorism, Susan Neiman explores who we have become in the three centuries that separate us from the early Enlightenment.

In the process, she rewrites the history of modern thought and points philosophy back to the questions that originally animated it."--BOOK JACKET.