The History of Evil in the Early Twentieth Century

1900-1950 CE
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-032-09516-5
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 491 g

Reihe: History of Evil

The fifth volume of The History of Evil covers the twentieth century from 1900 through 1950. The period saw the maturation of intellectual movements such as Pragmatism and Phenomenology, and the full emergence of several new academic disciplines; all these provided novel intellectual tools that were used to shed light on a human capacity for evil that was becoming increasingly hard to ignore. An underlying theme of this volume is the effort to reconstruct an understanding of human nature after confidence in its intrinsic goodness and moral character had been shaken by world events. The chapters in this volume cover globally relevant topics such as education, propaganda, power, oppression, and genocide, and include perspectives on evil drawn from across the world. Theological and atheistic responses to evil are also examined in the volume.

This outstanding treatment of approaches to evil at a determinative period of modernity will appeal to those with interests in the intellectual history of the era, as well as to those with interests in the political, philosophical and theological movements that matured within it.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Harrison, Victoria

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Editors and contributors. Series Introduction. Introduction, Victoria S. Harrison. 1. Pragmatism and Evil: Charles Peirce and William James, David L. O’Hara. 2. Education and Approaches to Evil, Nel Noddings. 3. Phenomenology, Eric Chelstrom. 4. Psychology and Evil: from Freud to Skinner, Rachel B. Blass. 5. Science and Evil, Christopher Southgate. 6. Theological Currents, Russell Re Manning. 7. Death of God, Balázs M. Mezei. 8. Suffering and Liberation, Xue Yu. 9. Philosophical Perspectives on Suffering and Evil in Colonial India, Nalini Bhushan.10. Pacifism and Non-Violent Resistance, Timothy Paul Erdel. 11. Power and Freedom, Jeffery A. Smith. 12. Genocide, Raimond Gaita. 13. Anarchism and Evil, Jan Narveson. 14. Marxism, Stalin, and the Question of Evil, Bill Martin. 15. The Maoist Perspective on Evil, Xiufen Lu. 16. The Charisma of Evil: Hitler and Propaganda, Rhett Gayle. 17. Representations of Evil in Early Film, Mara Naselli. Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Victoria S. Harrison is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Macau, China.

Chad Meister is Professor of Philosophy and Theology at Bethel College, USA.

Charles Taliaferro is Professor of Philosophy at St Olaf College, USA.