1st Edition

Evil after Postmodernism Histories, Narratives and Ethics

By Jennifer Geddes Copyright 2001
    128 Pages
    by Routledge

    128 Pages
    by Routledge

    These six essays form a stimulating and lucid investigation of the meaning of evil in the light of postmodern thought, and of the cultural and social changes of the modern age. They consider subjects such as the war in Bosnia, AIDS, and the Holocaust.

    Chapter 1 Introduction, Jennifer L. Geddes; Part 1 Histories; Chapter 2 Evil Inside and Outside History, Berel Lang; Chapter 3 On Contingency and Culpability, Larry D. Bouchard; Part 2 Narratives; Chapter 4 Narrating Evil, Roger Shattuck; Chapter 5 The Plot of Suffering, David B. Morris; Part 3 Ethics; Chapter 6 The Reflexivity of Evil, Thomas Cushman; Chapter 7 Others and Aliens, Richard Kearney;

    Biography

    Jennifer Geddes is the Hannah Arendt Fellow at the Institute for Advance Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia, USA.