Title: Modernity And The Problem Of Evil
First published: April 28, 2005
Description: Introduction / Alan D. Schrift -- "Radical evil" revived: Hitler, Kant, Luther, Neo-Lacanians / Henry Staten -- Liquidating the "nearly just society": radical evil's triumphant return / William L. McBride -- Violence and secularization, evil and redemption / Martin Beck Matustik -- Disenchantment and the persistence of evil: Habermas, Jonas, Badiou / Peter Dews -- How rape became a crime against humanity: history of an error / Debra B. Bergoffen -- Ways of winning: the costs of moral victory in transitional regimes / Robert Meister -- Abjection and film: displacing the fetishistic, racist rhetoric of political projection / Tina Chanter -- Faith, territory, and evil / William E. Connolly -- Hannah Arendt on the Bourgeois origins of totalitarian evil / Robert B. Pippin -- Evil, evils, and the question of ethics / Adi Ophir -- Incursions of evil: the double bind of alterity / Edith Wyschogrod.
Subjects: Postmodernism, Good and evil