Evil in modern thought : an alternative history of philosophy

著者

• Neiman, Susan

書誌事項

Evil in modern thought : an alternative history of philosophy

Susan Neiman

Princeton University Press, c2002

注記

Includes bibliographical references (p. 337-343) and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

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. In this book, Susan Neiman tells the history of modern philosophy as an attempt to come to terms with evil. She reintroduces philosophy to anyone interested in questions of life and death, good and evil, suffering and sense.

目次

Acknowledgments xi INTRODUCTION 1 CHAPTER ONE: FIRE FROM HEAVEN 14 God's Advocates: Leibniz and Pope 18 Newton of the Mind: Jean-Jacques Rousse u 36 Divided Wisdom: Immanuel Kant 57 Real and Rational: Hegel and Marx 84 In Conclusion 109 CHAPTER TWO: CONDEMNING THE ARCHITECT 113 Raw Material: Bayle's Dictionary 116 Voltaire's Destinies 128 The Impotence of Reason: David Hume 148 End of the Tunnel: The Marquis de Sade 170 Schopenhauer: The World as Tribun l 196 CHAPTER THREE: ENDS OF AN ILLUSION 203 Eternal Choices: Nietzsche on Redemption 206 On Consolation: Freud vs. Providence 227 CHAPTER FOUR: HOMELESS 238 Earthquakes: Why Lisbon? 240 Mass Murders: Why Auschwitz? 250 Losses: Ending Modern Theodicies 258 Intentions: Meaning and Malice 267 Terror: After September 11 281 Remains: Camus, Arendt, Critical Theory, Rawls 288 Origins: Sufficient Reason 314 Notes 329 Bibliography 337 Index 345

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA58374586
• ISBN:
  • 0691096082
• 出版国コード: us
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Princeton, N.J.
• ページ数/冊数: xii, 358 p.
• 大きさ: 24 cm