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

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Introduction 1
5. PART I Theological Foundations
6. 1. The Rise of the Problem of Evil 21
7. 2. Augustine, Free Will, and Evil 39
8. 3. Aquinas, Privation, and Original Sin 55
9. 4. Descartes and the Evil of Error 77
10. 5. Leibniz and Theodicy: Evil as the Good 96
11. PART II From Autonomous Reason to History
12. 6. Kant on Radical Evil 117
13. 7. Schelling and the Metaphysics of Evil 138
14. 8. Nietzsche and the Genealogy of Evil 163
15. PART III Socialisation and Psychoanalysis
16. 9. Arendt on Evil: From the Radical to the Banal 189
17. 10. Lacan and the Symbolic Function of Evil 208
18. 11. Castoriadis: Evil and the Social Imaginary 236
19. PART IV The Subjects of Evil
20. 12. The Perpetrators of Evil 261
21. 13. Remembering the Victims 286
22. Conclusion 319
23. Bibliography 323
24. Index 341