Evil in Modern Thought

Susan Neiman

Princeton University Press, 2015

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Evil threatens human reason, for it challenges our hope that the world makes sense. For eighteenth-century Europeans, the Lisbon earthquake was manifest evil. Today we view evil as a matter of human cruelty, and Auschwitz as its extreme incarnation. Examining our understanding of evil from the Inquisition to contemporary terrorism, Susan Neiman exp

ISBN-13
9780691168500
ISBN-10
0691168504
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Year
2015
Publication date
2015-08-25
Pages
408
Dimensions
211x134x28
Weight
524