1st Edition
Evil after Postmodernism Histories, Narratives and Ethics
By Jennifer Geddes
Copyright 2001
128 Pages
by
Routledge
128 Pages
by
Routledge
128 Pages
by
Routledge
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These six essays form a stimulating and lucid investigation of the meaning of evil in the light of postmodern thought, and of the cultural and social changes of the modern age. They consider subjects such as the war in Bosnia, AIDS, and the Holocaust.
Chapter 1 Introduction, Jennifer L. Geddes; Part 1 Histories; Chapter 2 Evil Inside and Outside History, Berel Lang; Chapter 3 On Contingency and Culpability, Larry D. Bouchard; Part 2 Narratives; Chapter 4 Narrating Evil, Roger Shattuck; Chapter 5 The Plot of Suffering, David B. Morris; Part 3 Ethics; Chapter 6 The Reflexivity of Evil, Thomas Cushman; Chapter 7 Others and Aliens, Richard Kearney;
Biography
Jennifer Geddes is the Hannah Arendt Fellow at the Institute for Advance Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia, USA.