Law and evil : philosophy, politics, psychoanalysis / edited by Ari Hirvonen and Janne Porttikivi.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hirvonen, Ari, 1960-

Porttikivi, Janne.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Good and evil.

Law--Philosophy.

Law.

Physical Description:

vi, 308 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2010.

Summary:

Law and Evil opens, expands and deepens our understanding of the phenomenon of evil by addressing the theoretical relationship between this phenomenon and law, Hannah Arendt said, 'the problem of evil will be the unfortunately, more than valid in the contemporary world: not only in the events of war, crimes against humanity, terror, repression, criminality, violence, torture, human trafficking, and so on, but also as evil is used rhetorically to condemn these acts, to categorize their perpetrators, and to justify forcible measure , both in international and domestic polities and in law.

But what is evil? Evil as a concept is too often taken as something that is self-evident, something that is always already defined. Taking Kant's concept of radical evil as a starting point, this volume counters such a tendency. Bringing together philosophical, political and psychoanalytical perspectives, in analyzing both the concept and the phenomenon of evil, the contributors to this volume offer a rich and thoroughgoing analysis of the multifaceted phenomenon of evil and its relation to law.

Contents:

Introduction / Ari Hirvonen & Janne Porttikivi

Eden/Shangri-la / Angus McDonald

Tragedy and evil : from Hölderlin to Heidegger / Françoise Dastur

Interrupting evil and the evil of interruption : revisiting the question of freedom / Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback

Wickedness inscribed in freedom : Jean-Luc Nancy on evil / Sami Santanen

Arche-evil : Derrida's philosophy explained through the concept of evil / Jari Kauppinen

Hell on earth : Hannah Arendt in the face of Hitler / Jacob Rogozinski

Total evil : the law under totalitarianism / Ari Hirvonen

The birth of terrorism out of the spirit of Enlightenment : the subject of Enlightenment and the terrorist sensorium / Artemy Magun

The catechism of the citizen : politics, law and religion in, after, with and against Rousseau / Simon Critchley

What's so funny about infinite justice / Janne Porttikivi

Moralization interrupted : on Lacan's thesis of 'the supreme good as radical evil' / Marc de Kesel

When psychoanalysis meets law and evil : perversion and psychopathy in the forensic clinic / Jochem Willemsen and Paul Verhaeghe

'That which in life might prefer death' : from the death drive to the desire of the analyst / Véronique Voruz.

Notes:

"A GlassHouse book."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0415497914

9780415497916

0203867467

9780203867464

OCLC:

311790150