Rethinking Evil: Contemporary Perspectives

by Maria Pia Lara

Book Overview

This innovative volume will be welcomed by moral and political philosophers, social scientists, and anyone who reflects seriously on the twentieth century's heavy burden of war, genocide, ethnic cleansing, and other evidence of people's desire to harm one another. Mar?a P?a Lara brings together a provocative set of essays that reexamine evil in the context of a "postmetaphysical" world, a world that no longer equates natural and human evil and no...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520226348
• ISBN13: 9780520226340
• Release Date: October 2001
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 314 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"