Evil in Contemporary Political Theory / / Peter Sutch, Bruce Haddock, Peri Roberts.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Haddock, Bruce,; Roberts, Peri,; Sutch, Peter,
• MitwirkendeR: Boucher, David,; Budde, Kerstin,; Evans, Mark,; Garrard, Eve,; Haddock, Bruce,; Horton, John,; Milbank, John,; Roberts, Peri,; Shorten, Richard,; Sutch, Peter,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (240 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; NOTES ON THE CONTRIBUTORS --; Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION --; Chapter 2 DARKNESS AND SILENCE: EVIL AND THE WESTERN LEGACY --; Chapter 3 CONSTRUCTIVISM AND EVIL --; Chapter 4 SYSTEMIC EVIL AND THE LIMITS OF PLURALISM --; Chapter 5 UNREASONABLE OR EVIL? --; Chapter 6 EVIL IN CONTEMPORARY INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL THEORY: ACTS THAT SHOCK THE CONSCIENCE OF MANKIND --; Chapter 7 DOING EVIL JUSTLY? THE MORALITY OF JUSTIFIABLE ABOMINATION --; Chapter 8 EVIL AND THE LEFT --; Chapter 9 THE GLAMOUR OF EVIL: DOSTOYEVSKY AND THE POLITICS OF TRANSGRESSION --; Chapter 10 THE RHETORIC OF MORAL EQUIVALENCE --; Chapter 11 BANAL BUT NOT BENIGN: ARENDT ON EVIL --; INDEX
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780748654123; 9783110780468
• DOI: 10.1515/9780748654123?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Peter Sutch, Bruce Haddock, Peri Roberts.

What role should the idea of evil have in contemporary moral and social thought?The concept of 'evil' has long been a key idea in moral discourse. Now, the contributors to this volume make a start on the important task of systematically exploring evil in the context of political theory.Intuitively, we know what evil means. Yet once we begin to think about its meaning we quickly uncover competing definitions. In recent years, political theorists have generally set the concept aside as outdated or inappropriate. Yet the idea that some things are wrong beyond toleration still has significant currency. If 'evil' can capture that significance, it merits a closer look.Key FeaturesPresents a broad ranging exploration of the idea of evil in contemporary theoryOffers a philosophical analysis of the role of evil in ethicsAnalyses the idea of evil in classic arguments