Svendsen, Lars Fr. H.,  1970- <br/><br/>
A philosophy of evil / 
Lars Svendsen ; translated by Kerri A. Pierce. 
 - 1st English translation 
 - Champaign, IL :  Dalkey Archive Press,  2010. 
 - 306 p. ;  21 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-306). 
<br/><br/>What is evil and how can we understand it? -- The theology of evil -- Theodicies -- The privation theodicy -- The free will theodicy -- The Iraenean theodicy -- The totality theodicy -- History as secular theodicy -- Job's insight-the theodicy of the hereafter -- Anthropology of evil -- Are people good or evil? -- The typologies of evil -- Demonic evil -- Evil for evil's sake -- Evil's aesthetic seduction -- Sadism -- Schadenfreude -- Subjective and objective evil -- Kant and instrumental evil -- The impossibility of a "devilish" will -- The paradox of evil -- Moral rebirth -- The evil is the other-idealistic evil -- "Us" vs. "them" -- Violent individuals -- Arendt and stupid evil -- The evil and the stupid -- Radical and banal evil -- Eichmann, Hoss, and Stangl -- Normal people and extreme evil -- Thinking as opposition -- Evil people -- The problem of evil -- Theory and praxis -- Ethics of conviction and ethics of responsibility -- Politics and violence -- Evil as a concrete problem. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781564785718 (pbk. : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2009050785 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Good and evil.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BJ1405.N67  / S8413 2010 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>170