Evil in Contemporary Political Theory

ISBN-13: 9780748668595 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 240 str.

Bruce Haddock

Opis

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 In recent years, political theorists have generally set the concept aside as outdated or inappropriate.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.

Spis treści

Notes on the Contributors; 1. Introduction, Bruce Haddock, Peri Roberts, Peter Sutch; 2. Darkness and Silence: Evil in the Western Legacy, John Milbank; 3. Constructivism and Evil, Peri Roberts; 4. Systemic Evil and the Limits of Pluralism, Bruce Haddock; 5. Unreasonable or Evil?, Kerstin Budde; 6. Evil in Contemporary International Political Theory: Acts that Shock the Conscience of Mankind, Peter Sutch; 7. Doing Evil Justly? The Morality of Justifiable Abomination, Mark Evans; 8. Evil and the Left, Eve Garrard; 9. The Glamour of Evil: Dostoyesvsky and the Politics of Transgression, John Horton; 10. The Rhetoric of Moral Equivalence, Richard Shorten; 11. Banal but not Benign: Arendt on Evil, David Boucher; Index.