The Fiction of Evil

Peter Brian Barry (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

190 Seiten

2016
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-80778-5 (ISBN)

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The Fiction of Evil explores how the study of literature is important to the study of metaphysics and ethics and is essential reading for those studying the evil or philosophy of literature at undergraduate level.

What makes someone an evil person? How are evil people different from merely bad people? Do evil people really exist? Can we make sense of evil people if we mythologize them? Do evil people take pleasure in the suffering of others? Can evil people be redeemed?

Peter Brian Barry answers these questions by examining a wide range of works from renowned authors, including works of literature by Kazuo Ishiguro, Mark Twain, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, and Oscar Wilde alongside classic works of philosophy by Nietzsche and Aristotle. By considering great texts from literature and philosophy, Barry examines whether evil is merely a fiction.

The Fiction of Evil explores how the study of literature can contribute to the study of metaphysics and ethics and it is essential reading for those studying the concept of evil or philosophy of literature at undergraduate level.

Peter Brian Barry is the Finkbeiner Endowed Professor of Ethics at Saginaw Valley State University, USA.

Introduction: Fiction and Evil

1. Literature as Philosophy

2. Skepticism about Evil, Part 1: Mythologizing Evil

3. Skepticism about Evil, Part 2: Nietzsche’s War on Evil

4. Conscience and Character

5. The Perverse, the Virulent, and the Satanic

6. Evil, Pleasure, and Malice: The Conscience of Claggart

7. Evil and Cruelty: The Fall of Dorian Gray

8. Redemption and Overcoming Evil.

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Erscheinungsdatum	25.05.2016
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Gewicht	272 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Metaphysik / Ontologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-138-80778-8 / 1138807788
ISBN-13	978-1-138-80778-5 / 9781138807785
Zustand	Neuware