Narrating evil : a postmetaphysical theory of reflective judgment /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Lara, María Pía
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, ©2007.
©2007
Series:New directions in critical theory.
Subjects:
Good and evil.
Judgment (Ethics)
Jugement (Morale)
PHILOSOPHY > Social.
PHILOSOPHY > Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
PHILOSOPHY > Good & Evil.
Het Kwaad.
Verteltheorie.
Meningsvorming.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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