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ABOUT THIS BOOK

PUBLISHER: Edinburgh University Press

FORMAT: Hardback

ISBN: 9781474445320

RRP: £80.00

PAGES: 328

PUBLICATION DATE:
May 31, 2019

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Evil in the Western Philosophical Tradition

Gavin Rae

Analyses the history of Western conceptions of evil, showing it to be remarkably complex, differentiated and contested Charting a sweeping history of evil within the Western philosophical tradition, Gavin Rae shows that the problem of evil–as a conceptual problem–came to the fore with the rise of monotheism. Rae traces the problem of evil from early and Medieval Christian philosophy to modern philosophy, German Idealism, post-structuralism and contemporary analytic philosophy and secularisation.

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Gavin Rae

Gavin Rae is Conex Marie Sklodowska-Curie Experienced Research Fellow at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. He is the author of The Problem of Political Foundations in Carl Schmitt and Emanuel Levinas (Palgrave, 2016), Ontology in Heidegger and Deleuze: A Comparative Analysis (Palgrave, 2014) and Realizing Freedom: Hegel, Sartre and the Alienation of Human Being (Palgrave, 2011). He is co-editor of Subjectivity and the Political: Contemporary Perspectives (Routledge, 2017) and The Meanings of Violence: From Critical Theory to Biopolitics (Routledge, 2018).