Evil : a history / edited by Andrew P. Chignell
- Published
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019]
- Physical Description
- xxiv, 499 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
- Additional Creators
- Chignell, Andrew, 1973-
- Series
- Contents
- Introduction / Andrew Chignell -- Evil, unintelligibility, radicality : footnotes to a correspondence between Hannah Arendt and Karl Jaspers / Andrew Chignell -- Kakology : a study of some evil words / Antonia Ruppel -- Evil in the Hebrew Bible : the case of the Wisdom Literature / Carol A. Newsom -- Reflection : the early history of Satan : before the Satan was evil / Esther Hamori -- Reflection : meat and evil / Matthew C. Halteman -- Explaining evil in Plato, Euripides, and Seneca / Rachana Kamtekar -- Explaining evil in late antiquity : Plotinus and His critics / Dominic J. O'Meara -- Augustine on evil / Peter King -- Reflection : hell as a problem of evil in Medieval women mystics / Clark West -- ..But draw not nigh this tree : evil in early Islamic thought / Nadja Germann -- Evil and late Medieval thought / Brian Davies -- Reflection : Dante on the evil of treachery : narrative and philosophy / Eleonore Stump -- Reflection : Calvinism and the demonic in the divine / Derk Pereboom -- Reflection : feminine evil and witchcraft / Sarah Pinnock -- Evils, privations, and the early moderns / Samuel Newlands -- Reflection : is Don Giovanni evil? / Elaine Sisman -- Reflection : Kant's journey on evil / George Huxford -- Evil in classical German philosophy : selfhood, deception, and despair / Allen Wood -- Reflection : Leopardi : "Everything is evil" / Silvia De Toffoli -- What happened to evil? / Susan Neiman -- Evil, natural science, and animal suffering / Eric Martin and Eric Watkins -- Reflection : cinematic evil / Christy Mag Uidhir -- Reflection : the banality of evil / Jennifer Geddes -- Evil after the holocaust / Gabriel Motzkin -- Reflection : Satanically great instigators and banal compliers / Avishai Margalit -- Reflection : on Google and not being evil / Wesley Chan.
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- ISBN
- 9780199915453 hardcover alkaline paper
0199915458 hardcover alkaline paper
9780199915477 paperback alkaline paper
0199915474 paperback alkaline paper - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Endowment Note
- Paterno Libraries Endowment
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