Narrating Evil A Postmetaphysical Theory of Reflective Judgment

Name: Narrating Evil A Postmetaphysical Theory of Reflective Judgment
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ISBN: 9780231140300

ISBN-10: 0231140304

ISBN-13: 9780231140300

Edition: 2007

Authors: Maria Lara

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Conceptions of evil have changed dramatically over time, and though humans continue to commit acts of cruelty against one another, today we possess a clearer, more moral way of analyzing them. In Narrating Evil, Mara Pa Lara explores what has changed in our understanding of evil, why the transformation matters, and how we can learn from this specific historical development. Drawing on Immanuel Kant's and Hannah Arendt's ideas about reflective judgment, Lara argues that narrative plays a key role in helping societies acknowledge their pasts. Particular stories haunt our consciousness and lead to a kind of examination and dialogue that shape notions of morality. A powerful description of a…

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List price: $60.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 4/19/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 244
Size: 7.52" wide x 9.17" long x 0.83" tall
Weight: 1.078
Language: English




The concepts and the tools



Why do we need to create a moral image of the world?



Storytelling : the disclosive dynamics of understanding and judging



Reflective judgment and the moral imagination



Hannah Arendt and negative exemplarity : the moral paradigm of history and its particularity



Learning from catastrophes



The judgments



What remains? : language remains



Hearts of darkness : political judgment



Death and the maiden



The place of the "Angelus Novus" : between catastrophes