PART I: Theological Foundations; 1. The Rise of the Problem of Evil; 2. Augustine, Free Will, and Evil; 3. Aquinas, Privation, and Original Sin; 4. Descartes and the Evil of Error; 5.Leibniz and Theodicy: Evil as the Good; PART II: From Autonomous Reason to History; 6. Kant on Radical Evil; 7. Schelling and the Metaphysics of Evil; 8. Nietzsche and the Genealogy of Evil; PART III: Socialisation and Psychoanalysis; 9. Arendt on Evil: From the Radical to the Banal; 10. Lacan and the Symbolic Function of Evil; 11. Castoriadis: Evil and the Social Imaginary; PART IV: The Subjects of Evil; 12. The Perpetrators of Evil; 13. Remembering the Victims; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.