Making sense of evil : an interdisciplinary approach /

Should criminologists take evil seriously as a cause or explanation of crime, criminality, deviance and/or social control? This book seeks to answer this question by exploring a range of interdisciplinary approaches to evil from theology, philosophy, literary and cultural studies and anthropology to...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dearey, Melissa (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Series:Critical criminological perspectives.
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Table of Contents:
  • Theodicy : Understanding the Problem of Evil
  • Enter the Evil Genius : Encountering Metaphysical Evil
  • Radical Freedom, Radical Evil? Kant's Theory of Evil and the Failure of Theodicy
  • Telling Evil Stories : Understanding Cultural Narratives and Symbols of Evil in the Phenomenological Hermeneutics of Paul Ricoeur
  • 'Something to be scared of' : Evil, the Feminine and Psychoanalytic Theory
  • Evil and Literature : Love and Liberation
  • Doing Evil : Crime, Compulsion, Seduction from the Standpoint of Social Psychology and Anthropology
  • The Banality of Evil : Genocide, Slavery, Holocaust, War
  • The Axis of Evil : the War on Terror, the 'Enemy Within' and the Politics of Evil and the State
  • Conclusion : Touching the Void or Looking Through a Glass Darkly? Evil and Criminology.