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Narrating evil : a postmetaphysical theory of reflective judgment /

Conceptions of evil have changed dramatically over time, and though humans continue to commit acts of cruelty against one another, today we possess a clearer, more moral way of analyzing them. In Narrating Evil, María Pía Lara explores what has changed in our understanding of evil, why the transfo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lara, María Pía
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Columbia University Press, ©2007.
©2007
Colección:New directions in critical theory.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • The concepts and the tools
  • Why do we need to create a moral image of the world?
  • Storytelling : the disclosive dynamics of understanding and judging
  • Reflective judgment and the moral imagination
  • Hannah Arendt and negative exemplarity : the moral paradigm of history and its particularity
  • Learning from catastrophes
  • The judgments
  • What remains? : language remains
  • Hearts of darkness : political judgment
  • Death and the maiden
  • The place of the "angelus novus" : between catastrophes
  • Epilogue.