New demons :: rethinking power and evil today /

As long as we care about suffering in the world, says political philosopher Simona Forti, we are compelled to inquire into the question of evil. But is the concept of evil still useful in a postmodern landscape where absolute values have been leveled and relativized by a historicist perspective? Giv...

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1. Verfasser: Forti, Simona (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Italian
Veröffentlicht: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2014.
Schriftenreihe:Cultural memory in the present.
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Zusammenfassung:As long as we care about suffering in the world, says political philosopher Simona Forti, we are compelled to inquire into the question of evil. But is the concept of evil still useful in a postmodern landscape where absolute values have been leveled and relativized by a historicist perspective? Given our current unwillingness to judge others, what signposts remain to guide our ethical behavior?Surveying the nineteenth- and twentieth-century Western philosophical debates on evil, Forti concludes that it is time to leave behind what she calls ""the Dostoevsky paradigm"": the dualistic vision of
Beschreibung:"First published as I nuovi demoni in March 2012 by Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Editore, Milan, Italy."
Beschreibung:1 online resource
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780804792981
0804792984

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