New Demons Rethinking Power and Evil Today【電子書籍】[ Simona Forti ]

＜p＞As long as we care about suffering in the world, says political philosopher Simona Forti, we are compelled to inquire into the question of evil. But is the concept of ＜em＞evil＜/em＞ still useful in a postmodern landscape where absolute values have been leveled and relativized by a historicist perspective? Given our current unwillingness to judge others, what signposts remain to guide our ethical behavior?＜/p＞ ＜p＞Surveying the nineteenth- and twentieth-century Western philosophical debates on evil, Forti concludes that it is time to leave behind what she calls "the Dostoevsky paradigm": the dualistic vision of an omnipotent monster pitted against absolute, helpless victims. No longer capable of grasping the normalization of evil in today's worldーwhose structures of power have been transformedーthis paradigm has exhausted its explanatory force.＜/p＞ ＜p＞In its place, Forti offers a different genealogy of the relationship between evil and power, one that finally calls into question power's．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る