New demons : rethinking power and evil today /

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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Forti, Simona (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Italiano
Publicado: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2014.
Colección:Cultural memory in the present.
Temas:
1800-1999
Good and evil.
Power (Philosophy)
Ethics, Modern > 19th century.
Ethics, Modern > 20th century.
Political science > Philosophy.
Pouvoir (Morale)
Morale > 19e siècle.
Morale > 20e siècle.
PHILOSOPHY > Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
PHILOSOPHY > Social.
Ethics, Modern
Good and evil
Political science > Philosophy
Ethik
Macht
Das Böse
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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