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New demons : rethinking power and evil today /
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? Giv...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Italiano |
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Stanford, California :
Stanford University Press,
2014.
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| Colección: | Cultural memory in the present.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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 |
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| Notas: | "First published as I nuovi demoni in March 2012 by Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Editore, Milan, Italy." |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780804792981 0804792984 |