New demons : rethinking power and evil today
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書誌事項
New demons : rethinking power and evil today
（Cultural memory in the present）
Stanford University Press, [2015]
- pbk. : alk. paper
- タイトル別名
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Nuovi demoni
- 統一タイトル
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Nuovi demoni
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注記
Includes index
"First published as I nuovi demoni in March 2012 by Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Editore, Milan, Italy."
収録内容
- The Dostoevsky paradigm
- Instincts, drives, and their vicissitudes : Nietzsche and Freud
- Ontological evil and the transcendence of evil
- Interlude : hypermoral biopolitics
- Thanatopolitics and absolute victims
- The legend of the grand inquisitor reinterpreted from below
- A different genealogy : the evil of docility
- Strategies of obedience and the ethos of freedom
- Parrhesia put to the test : practices of dissidence between eastern and western Europe
- Poor devils who "worship" life : us
内容説明・目次
内容説明
As long as we care about suffering in the world, says political philosopher Simona Forti, we are compelled to inquire into the question of evil. But is the concept of evil still useful in a postmodern landscape where absolute values have been leveled and relativized by a historicist perspective? Given our current unwillingness to judge others, what signposts remain to guide our ethical behavior?
Surveying the nineteenth- and twentieth-century Western philosophical debates on evil, Forti concludes that it is time to leave behind what she calls "the Dostoevsky paradigm": the dualistic vision of an omnipotent monster pitted against absolute, helpless victims. No longer capable of grasping the normalization of evil in today's world-whose structures of power have been transformed-this paradigm has exhausted its explanatory force.
In its place, Forti offers a different genealogy of the relationship between evil and power, one that finally calls into question power's recurrent link to transgression. At the center of contemporary evil she posits the passive attitude towards rule-following, the need for normalcy, and the desire for obedience nurtured by our contemporary mass democracies. In our times, she contends, evil must be explored in tandem with our stubborn desire to stay alive at all costs as much as with our deep need for recognition: the new modern absolutes. A courageous book, New Demons extends an original, inspiring call to ethical living in a biopolitical age.
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