Evil in Modern Thought An Alternative History of Philosophy

Name: Evil in Modern Thought An Alternative History of Philosophy
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ISBN: 9780691117928

ISBN-10: 0691117926

ISBN-13: 9780691117928

Edition: 2002 (Revised)

Authors: Susan Neiman

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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. Whether expressed in theological or secular terms, evil poses a problem about the world's intelligibility. It confronts…

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List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 3/21/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 6.30" wide x 9.25" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Fire from Heaven


God's Advocates: Leibniz and Pope


Newton of the Mind: Jean-Jacques Rousseau


Divided Wisdom: Immanuel Kant


Real and Rational: Hegel and Marx


In Conclusion



Condemning the Architect


Raw Material: Bayle's Dictionary


Voltaire's Destinies


The Impotence of Reason: David Hume


End of the Tunnel: The Marquis de Sade


Schopenhauer: The World as Tribunal



Ends of an Illusion


Eternal Choices: Nietzsche on Redemption


On Consolation: Freud vs. Providence



Homeless


Earthquakes: Why Lisbon?


Mass Murders: Why Auschwitz?


Losses: Ending Modern Theodicies


Intentions: Meaning and Malice


Terror: After September 11


Remains: Camus, Arendt, Critical Theory, Rawls


Origins: Sufficient Reason


Notes


Bibliography


Index