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Author : Clifton Crais
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2002-10-17
Category : History
ISBN : 0521817218
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Author : Alan Wolfe
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307271853
A leading political scientist identifies "political evil" as wrongdoing perpetrated by individuals with specific political goals, cites specific examples throughout the world and explains that important changes can be initiated through adjustments in how political evil is treated.
Author : Robert Meister
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780231150378
The way in which mainstream human rights discourse speaks of such evils as the Holocaust, slavery, or apartheid puts them solidly in the past. Its elaborate techniques of "transitional" justice encourage future generations to move forward by creating a false assumption of closure, enabling those who are guilty to elude responsibility. This approach to history, common to late-twentieth-century humanitarianism, doesn't presuppose that evil ends when justice begins. Rather, it assumes that a time before justice is the moment to put evil in the past. Merging examples from literature and history, Robert Meister confronts the problem of closure and the resolution of historical injustice. He boldly challenges the empty moral logic of "never again" or the theoretical reduction of evil to a cycle of violence and counterviolence, broken only once evil is remembered for what it was. Meister criticizes such methods for their deferral of justice and susceptibility to exploitation and elaborates the flawed moral logic of "never again" in relation to Auschwitz and its evolution into a twenty-first-century doctrine of the Responsibility to Protect.
Author : Patrick Hayden
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2009-01-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134057924
Hannah Arendt is widely regarded as one of the twentieth century’s most powerful political theorists. The purpose of this book is to make an innovative contribution to the newly emerging literature connecting Arendt to international political theory and debates surrounding globalization. In recent years the work of Arendt has gathered increasing interest from scholars in the field of international political theory because of its potential relevance for understanding international affairs. Focusing on the central theme of evil in Arendt’s work, this book weaves together elements of Arendt’s theory in order to engage with four major problems connected with contemporary globalization: genocide and crimes against humanity; global poverty and radical economic inequality; global refugees, displaced persons, and the ‘stateless’; and the destructive domination of the public realm by predatory neoliberal economic globalization. Hayden shows that a key constellation of her concepts—the right to have rights, superfluousness, thoughtlessness, plurality, freedom, and power—can help us to understand and address some of the central problems involving political evil in our global age. In doing so, this book takes Arendtian scholarship and international political theory into provocative new directions. Political Evil in a Global Age will be of interest to students, researchers and scholars of politics, philosophy, sociology and cultural studies.
Author : Daniel Philpott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Law
ISBN : UOM:39015064716064
A formidable number of societies all over the world have sought to confront past evil. This volume features a conversation about reconciliation whose common denominator is theology. Theologians, philosophers, and political scientists explore the meaning of reconciliation for the politics of transition.
Author : Danielle Celermajer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317076773
In an interview with Günther Gaus for German television in 1964, Hannah Arendt insisted that she was not a philosopher but a political theorist. Disillusioned by the cooperation of German intellectuals with the Nazis, she said farewell to philosophy when she fled the country. This book examines Arendt's ideas about thinking, acting and political responsibility, investigating the relationship between the life of the mind and the life of action that preoccupied Arendt throughout her life. By joining in the conversation between Arendt and Gaus, each contributor probes her ideas about thinking and judging and their relation to responsibility, power and violence. An insightful and intelligent treatment of the work of Hannah Arendt, this volume will appeal to a wide number of fields beyond political theory and philosophy, including law, literary studies, social anthropology and cultural history.
Author : Michael Ignatieff
Publisher : Penguin Canada
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2006-11-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780143181347
In the age of terrorism, the temptations of ruthlessness can be overwhelming. But there is also the anxiety that a violent response to violence makes us morally indistinguishable from our enemies. There is perhaps no greater political challenge today than trying to win the war against terrorism without losing our democratic souls. Michael Ignatieff confronts this challenge head-on with a combination of pragmatic idealism, historical sensitivity, and astute political judgment. Ignatieff traces the modern history of terrorism and counter-terrorism from the nihilists of Czarist Russia and the militias of Weimar Germany to the IRA and Al Qaeda. He shows how the most potent response to terror has been force, decisive and direct, but—just as important—restrained. Restraint also gives democracy its strongest weapon: the moral power to endure when the furies of vengeance and hatred are spent.
Author : Anton Pelinka
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-19
Category : History
ISBN : 141283144X
According to Pelinka, Jaruzelski's politics of democratization in Poland in the 1980s (which led to the first free and competitive elections in a communist system) illustrate personal leadership hampered by democracy. Jaruzelski initiated the roundtable process that transformed Poland into a democracy; yet, this process ultimately ended with his abdication.
Author : Bruce Haddock
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780748654147
Explores the actual and possible roles of evil in contemporary political theory
Author : Stephen Chan
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 047203085X
A thought-provoking guide to the history of ideas that form the bedrock of the future global arena
Author : Richard J. Bernstein
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780745650487
Since 9/11 politicians, preachers, conservatives and the media are all speaking about evil. In the past the dicourse about evil in our religious, philosophic and literary traditions has provoked thinking, questioning and inquiry. But today the appeal to evil is being used as a political tool to obscure compex issues, block serious thinking and stifle public discussion and debate. We are now confronting a clash of mentalities, not a clash of civilisations. One mentality is drawn to absolutes, moral certainties, and simplistic dichotomies of good and evil. The other seriously questions an appeal to absolutes in politics and criticizes the simplistic division of the world into the forces of evil and the forces of good. In The Abuse of Evil Bernstein challenges the claim that without an appeal to absolutes, we lack the grounds for acting decisively in fighting our enemies. The post 9/11 abuse of evil corrupts both democratic politics and religion. The stakes are high in this clash of mentalities in shaping how we think and act in the world today - and in the future.
Author : Garry Wills
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781439128794
In A Necessary Evil, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Garry Wills shows that distrust of government is embedded deep in the American psyche. From the revolt of the colonies against king and parliament to present-day tax revolts, militia movements, and debates about term limits, Wills shows that American antigovernment sentiment is based on a fundamental misunderstanding of our history. By debunking some of our fondest myths about the Founding Fathers, the Constitution, and the taming of the frontier, Wills shows us how our tendency to hold our elected government in disdain is misguided.
Author : Derek Edyvane
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780415890472
There is a growing perception of ethical crisis in public life. This book articulates a new perspective on public morality in uncertain times by defending a radical re-orientation of civic ethics away from the pursuit of the good society and towards the prevention of the great evils of human existence.
Author : Martha Few
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780292782006
Women Who Live Evil Lives documents the lives and practices of mixed-race, Black, Spanish, and Maya women sorcerers, spell-casters, magical healers, and midwives in the social relations of power in Santiago de Guatemala, the capital of colonial Central America. Men and women from all sectors of society consulted them to intervene in sexual and familial relations and disputes between neighbors and rival shop owners; to counter abusive colonial officials, employers, or husbands; and in cases of inexplicable illness. Applying historical, anthropological, and gender studies analysis, Martha Few argues that women's local practices of magic, curing, and religion revealed opportunities for women's cultural authority and power in colonial Guatemala. Few draws on archival research conducted in Guatemala, Mexico, and Spain to shed new light on women's critical public roles in Santiago, the cultural and social connections between the capital city and the countryside, and the gender dynamics of power in the ethnic and cultural contestation of Spanish colonial rule in daily life.
Author : Richard J. Bernstein
Publisher : Polity
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780745634944
Since 9/11 politicians, preachers, conservatives, and the media are all speaking about evil. In this text, Richard Bernstein challenges the claim that without an appeal to absolutes, we lack the grounds for acting decisively in fighting our enemies.