Evil in the Western Philosophical Tradition

Gavin Rae (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

360 Seiten

2021
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-4533-7 (ISBN)

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Gavin Rae analyses the history of Western conceptions of evil, showing it to be remarkably complex, differentiated and contested. He traces the problem of evil from early and Medieval Christian philosophy to modern philosophy, German Idealism, post-structuralism and contemporary analytic philosophy and secularisation.

Charting a sweeping history of evil within the Western philosophical tradition, Gavin Rae shows that the problem of evil – as a conceptual problem – came to the fore with the rise of monotheism. Rae traces the problem of evil from early and Medieval Christian philosophy to modern philosophy, German Idealism, post-structuralism and contemporary analytic philosophy and secularisation.

Gavin Rae is Associate Professor (accredited to Professor) in the Department of Logic and Theoretical Philosophy at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain. His research interests lie in nineteenth and twentieth century European philosophy, where he works at the intersection of socio-political philosophy, psychoanalytic theory, ontology, and ethics. Besides over sixty published articles and book chapters, he is the author of eight monographs, the most recent of which are The Politics of Reason: A Postfoundational Approach (Edinburgh University Press, 2026), Questioning Sexuality: From Psychoanalysis to Gender Theory and Beyond (Edinburgh University Press, 2024), and Poststructuralist Agency: The Subject in Twentieth Century Theory (Edinburgh University Press, 2020). He has also co-edited six volumes, the most recent of which are Subjective Agency and Poststructuralism (Routledge, 2025—with Cillian Ó Fathaigh), Philosophy across Borders (Routledge, 2025—with Emma Ingala), and Historical Traces and Future Pathways of Poststructuralism: Aesthetics, Ethics, Politics (Routledge, 2021—with Emma Ingala).

PrefaceIntroduction

Part I: Theological Foundations

1. The Rise of the Problem of Evil

2. Augustine, Free Will, and Evil

3. Aquinas, Privation, and Original Sin

4. Descartes and the Evil of Error

5. Leibniz and Theodicy: Evil as the Good

Part II: From Autonomous Reason to History

6. Kant on Radical Evil

7. Schelling and the Metaphysics of Evil

8. Nietzsche and the Genealogy of Evil

Part III: Socialisation and Psychoanalysis

9. Arendt on Evil: From the Radical to the Banal

10. Lacan and the Symbolic Function of Evil

11. Castoriadis: Evil and the Social Imaginary

Part IV. The Subjects of Evil

12. The Perpetrators of Evil

13. Remembering the Victims

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	24.02.2021
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	537 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	1-4744-4533-0 / 1474445330
ISBN-13	978-1-4744-4533-7 / 9781474445337
Zustand	Neuware