Idea of Evil by Dews

The Idea of Evil (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781405117043)

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Format: Hardcover
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Idea of Evil by Dews

The Idea of Evil

$47.95
Idea of Evil by Dews

The Idea of Evil

$47.95
Format: Hardcover
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This timely book by philosopher Peter Dews explores the idea of evil, one of the most problematic terms in the contemporary moral vocabulary.
  • Surveys the intellectual debate on the nature of evil over the past two hundred years
  • Engages with a broad range of discourses and thinkers, from Kant and the German Idealists, via Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, to Levinas and Adorno
  • Suggests that the concept of moral evil touches on a neuralgic point in western culture
  • Argues that, despite the widespread abuse and political manipulation of the term 'evil', we cannot do without it
  • Concludes that if we use the concept of evil, we must acknowledge its religious dimension


Author: Peter Dews
ISBN-10: 1405117044
ISBN-13: 9781405117043
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Language: English
Published: 11/28/2007
Pages: 264
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.17lbs
Size: 9.14h x 6.36w x 1.01d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 02/01/2008 pg. 11
By Peter Dews
By Peter Dews
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Peter Dews is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Essex. He has published widely on 19th and 20th century European thought, with a focus on German Idealism, the Frankfurt School, and recent French philosophy. He is the author of Logics of Disintegration (1987, reissued 2006), and The Limits of Disenchantment (1995). He has also edited and introduced two books on the work of J?gen Habermas: Autonomy and Solidarity: Interviews with J?gen Habermas (1986) and Habermas: A Critical Reader (Blackwell, 1999).

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