Evil in modern thought : an alternative history of philosophy / Susan Neiman.
"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...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
[2002]
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| Summary: | "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."--BOOK JACKET. |
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| Physical Description: | xii, 358 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-343) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0691096082 9780691096087 |