Making Sense of Evil: An Interdisciplinary Approach

Front Matter....Pages i-xviii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Theodicy: Understanding the Problem of Evil....Pages 3-30
Enter the Evil Genius: Encountering Metaphysical Evil....Pages 31-55
Radical Freedom, Radical Evil? Kant’s Theory of Evil and the Failure of Theodicy....Pages 56-77
Front Matter....Pages 79-79
Telling Evil Stories: Understanding Cultural Narratives and Symbols of Evil in the Phenomenological Hermeneutics of Paul Ricoeur....Pages 81-103
‘Something to be scared of’—Evil, the Feminine and Psychoanalytic Theory....Pages 104-133
Evil and Literature: Love and Liberation....Pages 134-162
Front Matter....Pages 163-163
Doing Evil: Crime, Compulsion and Seduction From the Standpoint of Social Psychology and Anthropology....Pages 165-185
The Banality of Evil: Genocide, Slavery, Holocaust and War....Pages 186-204
The Axis of Evil—the War on Terror, the ‘Enemy Within’ and the Politics of Evil and the State....Pages 205-225
Conclusion: Touching the Void or Looking Through a Glass Darkly? Evil and Criminology....Pages 226-246
Back Matter....Pages 247-255