Understanding evil : : an interdisciplinary approach / / edited by Margaret Sönser Breen.

• Superior document: At the Interface / Probing the Boundaries ; 2
• TeilnehmendeR: Breen, Margaret Sönser,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam, Netherlands : : Rodopi,, [2003]; ©2003
• Year of Publication: 2003
• Language: English
• Series: At the Interface / Probing the Boundaries ; 2.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.
• Notes: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Written across the disciplines of law, literature, philosophy, and theology, Understanding Evil: An Interdisciplinary Approach represents wide-ranging approaches to and understandings of "evil" and "wickedness." Consisting of three sections - " Grappling with Evil ", &q...

Table of Contents

• Introduction.
• PART I Grappling with Evil.
• Neil FORSYTH: Evil and Literature: Grandeur and Nothingness. Theodore SETO: Reframing Evil in Evolutionary and Game Theoretic Terms. Robert N. FISHER: The Catheter of Bilious Hatred. Margaret SÖNSER BREEN: Reading for Constructions of the Unspeakable in Kafka's Metamorphosis.
• PART II Justice, Responsibility and War.
• Peter DAY: Never Just, Always Evil: The View of Warfare in the Writings of the Ante-Nicene Fathers. Bill WRINGE: International Justice, Intervention, and the Prevention of Evil. Scott LOWE: Terrorism and Just War Theory. John T. PARRY: Collective and Individual Responsibility for Acts of Terrorism.
• PART III Blame, Murder, and Retributivism.
• Maria Michela MARZANO: Moral Responsibility, Liability, and Perversion: A New Understanding of Wickedness. John A. HUMBACH: The Humane Principle and the Biology of Blame (Evolutionary Origins of the Imperative to Inflict). Ramzi NASSER: Rescuing Kant's Retributivism. Jean MURLEY: Ordinary Sinners and Moral Aliens: The Murder Narratives of Charles Brockden Brown and Edgar Allan Poe. Karen-Margrethe SIMONSEN: Evilness and Law in Heinrich von Kleist's Story "Michael Kohlhaas". Notes Contributors.