Understanding Evil: An Interdisciplinary Approach
Edited by Margaret Sönser Breen

Contents

Introduction

PART I: Grappling with Evil

Evil and Literature: Granduer and Nothingness
Neil Forsyth

Reframing Evil in Evolutionary and Game Theoretic Terms
Theodore Seto

The Catheter of Bilious Hatred
Robert N Fisher

Reading for Constructions of the Unspeakable in Kafka’s Metamorphosis
Margaret Sönser Breen

PART II Justice, Responsibility, and War

Never Just, Always Evil: The View of Warfare in the Writings of the Ante-Nicene Fathers
Peter Day

International Justice, Intervention, and the Prevention of Evil
Bill Wringe

Terrorism and Just War Theory
Scott Lowe

Collective and Individual Responsibility for Acts of Terrorism
John T. Parry

PART III Blame, Murder, and Retributivism

Moral Responsibility, Liability, and Perversion: A New Understanding of Wickedness
Maria Michela Marzano

The Humane Principle and the Biology of Blame (Evolutionary Origins of the Imperative to Inflict)
John A. Humbach

Rescuing Kant’s Retributivism
Ramzi Nasser

Ordinary Sinners and Moral Aliens: The Murder Narratives of Charles Brockden Brown and Edgar Allen Poe
Jean Murley

Evilness and Law in Heinrich von Kleist’s Story “Michael Kohlhaas”
Karen-Margrethe Simonsen

Notes on Contributors

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