ABSTRACT

These six essays form a stimulating and lucid investigation of the meaning of evil in the light of postmodern thought, and of the cultural and social changes of the modern age. They consider subjects such as the war in Bosnia, AIDS, and the Holocaust.

part |34 pages

Histories

chapter |13 pages

Evil Inside and Outside History

The Post-Holocaust vs. the Postmodern

chapter |19 pages

On Contingency and Culpability

Is the Postmodern Post-Tragic?

part |33 pages

Narratives

chapter |11 pages

Narrating Evil

Great Faults and “Splendidly Wicked People”

chapter |20 pages

The Plot of Suffering

AIDS and Evil

part |37 pages

Ethics

chapter |22 pages

The Reflexivity of Evil 1

Modernity and Moral Transgression in the War in Bosnia

chapter |13 pages

Others and Aliens

Between Good and Evil