Understanding evil : an interdisciplinary approach / by Margaret Sönser Breen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Breen, Margaret Sönser.

Series:

At the interface/probing the boundaries

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Good and evil.

Physical Description:

xiii, 222 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2003.

Summary:

Written across the disciplines of law, literature, philosophy, and theology, this volume represents wide-ranging approaches to and understandings of evil and wickedness. Consisting of three sections - Grappling with Evil, Justice, Responsibility, and War and Blame, Murder, and Retributivism, - all the essays are inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary in focus.

Contents:

Part I Grappling with Evil

Evil and Literature: Grandeur and Nothingness / Neil Forsyth 1

Reframing Evil in Evolutionary and Game Theoretic Terms / Theodore Seto 19

The Catheter of Bilious Hatred / Robert N Fisher 33

Reading for Constructions of the Unspeakable in Kafka's Metamorphosis / Margaret Sonser Breen 43

Part II Justice, Responsibility and War

Never Just, Always Evil: The View of Warfare in the Writings of the Ante-Nicene Fathers / Peter Day 57

International Justice, Intervention, and the Prevention of Evil / Bill Wringe 75

Terrorism and Just War Theory / Scott Lowe 95

Collective and Individual Responsibility for Acts of Terrorism / John T. Parry 107

Part III Blame, Murder, and Retributivism

Moral Responsibility, Liability, and Perversion: A New Understanding of Wickedness / Maria Michela Marzano 129

The Humane Principle and the Biology of Blame (Evolutionary Origins of the Imperative to Inflict) / John A. Humbach 145

Rescuing Kant's Retributivism / Ramzi Nasser 163

Ordinary Sinners and Moral Aliens: The Murder Narratives of Charles Brockden Brown and Edgar Allan Poe / Jean Murley 181

Evilness and Law in Heinrich von Kleist's Story "Michael Kohlhaas" / Karen-Margrethe Simonsen 201.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9042009357

OCLC:

52223483