8. Understanding Evil: Arendt and the Final Solution

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction: Contemporary Perspectives 1
5. Part One: A Critical Review of Evil
6. 1. Is God Evil? Isabel Cabrera 17
7. 2. What’s the Problem of Evil? 27
8. 3. “Radical Finitude” and the Problem of Evil: Critical Comments on Wellmer’s Reading of Jonas 46
9. Part Two: Evil and Moral Philosophy
10. 4. Radical Evil: Kant at War with Himself 55
11. 5. Reflections on the Banality of (Radical) Evil: A Kantian Analysis 86
12. 6. The Polyhedron of Evil 101
13. 7. An Evil Heart: Moral Evil and Moral Identity 113
14. 8. Understanding Evil: Arendt and the Final Solution 131
15. Part Three: Postmetaphysical Approaches for a Theory of Evil
16. 9. Toward a Sociology of Evil: Getting beyond Modernist Common Sense about the Alternative to “the Good” 153
17. 10. The Evil That Men Do: A Meditation on Radical Evil from a Postmetaphysical Point of View 173
18. 11. Major Offenders, Minor Offenders 189
19. 12. On Pain, the Suffering of Wrong, and Other Grievances: Responsibility 198
20. 13. Forgiveness and Oblivion: A New Form of Banality of Evil? 210
21. Part Four: Narratives of Evil
22. 14. “Happy Endings”/Unendings: Narratives of Evil 225
23. 15. Narrating Evil: A Postmetaphysical Theory of Reflective Judgment 239
24. Notes 251
25. List of Contributors 295
26. Index 299