Feminist Philosophy and the Problem of Evil
by Schott, Robin MayFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2007-05-01
Publisher(s): Indiana Univ Pr
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Summary
Feminist voices respond to evil and acts of terrorism that trouble modern society
Author Biography
Robin May Schott is Associate Professor of Philosophy at The Danish University of Education. She is author of Discovering Feminist Philosophy and Cognition and Eros: A Critique of the Kantian Paradigm and editor of Feminist Interpretations of Immanuel Kant.
Table of Contents
| Evil, terrorism, and gender | p. 1 |
| Feminist perspectives on evil : historical and contemporary perspectives | |
| The devil's insatiable sex : a genealogy of evil incarnate | p. 21 |
| Irigaray's to be two : the problem of evil and the plasticity of incarnation | p. 53 |
| Genocide and social death | p. 71 |
| Holes of oblivion : the banality of radical evil | p. 87 |
| Banal evil and useless knowledge : Hannah Arendt and Charlotte Delbo on evil after the Holocaust | p. 110 |
| February 22, 2001 : toward a politics of the vulnerable body | p. 121 |
| Obscene undersides : woman and evil between the Taliban and the United States | p. 140 |
| Cruelty, horror, and the will to redemption | p. 160 |
| Forum on September 11, 2001 : feminist perspectives on terrorism | |
| Terrorism, evil, and everyday depravity | p. 195 |
| Responding to 9/11 : military mode or civil law? | p. 206 |
| Naming terrorism as evil | p. 219 |
| The vertigo of secularization : narratives of evil | p. 228 |
| Willing the freedom of others after 9/11 : a Sartrean approach to globalization and children's rights | p. 245 |
| Terrorism and democracy : between violence and justice | p. 258 |
| Those who "witness the evil" : peacekeeping as trauma | p. 271 |
| The evils of the September attacks | p. 284 |
| Feminist reactions to the contemporary security regime | p. 299 |
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