The history of evil in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, 1700–1900 CE / by Douglas Hedley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hedley, Douglas, author.

Series:

History of evil.

The History of Evil ; Volume IV

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Good and evil--History.

Good and evil.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (369 pages).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Boca Raton, FL : Routledge, an imprint of Taylor and Francis, 2018.

Summary:

The fourth volume of The History of Evil explores the key thinkers and themes relating to the question of evil in eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The very idea of "evil" is highly contentious in modern thought and this period was one in which the concept was intensely debated and criticized. The persistence of the idea of evil is a testament to the abiding significance of theology in the period, not least in Germany. Comprising twenty-two chapters by international scholars, some of the topics explored include: Berkeley on evil, Voltaire and the Philosophes, John Wesley on the origins of evil, Immanuel Kant on evil, autonomy and grace, the deliverance of evil: utopia and evil, utilitarianism and evil, evil in Schelling and Schopenhauer, Friedrich Nietzsche and the genealogy of evil, and evil and the nineteenth-century idealists.This volume also explores a number of other key thinkers and topics within the period. This outstanding treatment of the history of evil at the crucial and determinative inception of its key concepts will appeal to those with particular interests in the ideas of evil and good.

Contents:

chapter Introduction / DOUGLAS HEDLEY

chapter 1 Berkeley on evil / JOHN ROBERTS

chapter 2 Voltaire and the Philosophes / DALE JACQUETTE

chapter 3 Jonathan Edwards / WILLIAM J. WAINWRIGHT

chapter 4 John Wesley on the origins of evil / BARRY E. BRYANT

chapter 5 Hume / CHARLOTTE R. BROWN AND WILLIAM EDWARD MORRIS

chapter 6 Immanuel Kant on evil, autonomy, and grace JEANINE M. GRENBERG

chapter 7 The deliverance of evil: Utopia and evil / NICOLE POHL

chapter 8 Utilitarianism and evil / GEOFFREY SCARRE

chapter 9 Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel / PAUL REDDING

chapter 10 Evil in Schelling and Schopenhauer / ALISTAIR WELCHMAN

chapter 11 Charles Darwin and the Problem of Evil / MICHAEL RUSE

chapter 12 Ludwig Feuerbach / DAN YIM

chapter 13 Søren Kierkegaard / ANTHONY RUDD

chapter 14 Evil in the philosophy of Karl Marx / WILLIAM L. MCBRIDE

chapter 15 Dostoevsky / GEORGE PATTISON

chapter 16 Friedrich Nietzsche and the genealogy of evil / DAVID BOOTH

chapter 17 Is colonialism evil? / DAVID A. HOEKEMA

chapter 18 Evil and the nineteenth-century idealists / LESLIE ARMOUR

chapter 19 Positivism / MIKE GANE

chapter 20 Famine / JONATHAN HEALEY

chapter 21 Modern European racism: Eighteenth-century views of race / JULIE K. WARD

chapter 22 Representations / JIL EVANS.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-351-13839-1

1-351-13840-5

1-351-13838-3

9781351138406

OCLC:

1033682140