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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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2014.
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| 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.