| Description |
1 online resource (x, 230 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
New directions in critical theory
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New directions in critical theory.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-218) and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Good and evil.
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Good and evil. |
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Judgment (Ethics)
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Judgment (Ethics) |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Lara, María Pía. Narrating evil. New York : Columbia University Press, ©2007 0231140304 9780231140300 (DLC) 2006031859 (OCoLC)71810054 |
| ISBN |
9780231511667 (electronic book) |
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0231511663 (electronic book) |
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