Format:
1 Online-Ressource (x, 230 pages)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0231511663
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9780231511667
Series Statement:
New directions in critical theory
Content:
Conceptions of evil have changed dramatically over time, and though humans continue to commit acts of cruelty against one another, today we possess a clearer, more moral way of analyzing them. In Narrating Evil, María Pía Lara explores what has changed in our understanding of evil, why the transformation matters, and how we can learn from this specific historical development. Drawing on Immanuel Kant's and Hannah Arendt's ideas about reflective judgment, Lara argues that narrative plays a key role in helping societies acknowledge their pasts. Particular stories haunt our
Content:
Introduction -- The concepts and the tools -- Why do we need to create a moral image of the world? -- Storytelling : the disclosive dynamics of understanding and judging -- Reflective judgment and the moral imagination -- Hannah Arendt and negative exemplarity : the moral paradigm of history and its particularity -- Learning from catastrophes -- The judgments -- What remains? : language remains -- Hearts of darkness : political judgment -- Death and the maiden -- The place of the "angelus novus" : between catastrophes -- Epilogue
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-218) and index
,
In English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0231140304
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780231140300
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Lara, María Pía Narrating evil New York : Columbia University Press, ©2007
Language:
English
URL:
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