Buch, Englisch, 255 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 3503 g
An Interdisciplinary Approach
Buch, Englisch, 255 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 3503 g
Reihe: Critical Criminological Perspectives
ISBN: 978-1-349-45616-1
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
When it comes to crime, everyone seems to take evil seriously as an explanatory concept - except criminologists. This book asks why, and why not, through exploring a variety of interdisciplinary approaches to evil from the perspectives of theology, philosophy, literary and cultural studies, and the social sciences.
Zielgruppe
Research
Autoren/Hrsg.
Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein
- Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Differentielle Psychologie, Persönlichkeitspsychologie
- Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie
- Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Kriminologie, Strafverfolgung
Weitere Infos & Material
Preface 1. Theodicy: Understanding the Problem of Evil 2. Enter the Evil Genius: Encountering Metaphysical Evil 3. Radical Freedom, Radical Evil? Kant's Theory of Evil and the Failure of Theodicy 4. Telling Evil Stories: Understanding Cultural Narratives and Symbols of Evil in the Phenomenological Hermeneutics of Paul Ricoeur 5. 'Something to be scared of' – Evil, the Feminine and Psychoanalytic Theory 6. Evil and Literature: Love and Liberation 7. Doing Evil: Crime, Compulsion, Seduction from the Standpoint of Social Psychology and Anthropology 8. The Banality of Evil: Genocide, Slavery, Holocaust, War 9. The Axis of Evil – the War on Terror, the 'Enemy Within' and the Politics of Evil and the State 10. Book Summary and Touching the Void or Looking Through a Glass Darkly? Evil and Criminology
