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Book SynopsisOur world has become inundated with images of a reality in which ‘evil’ thrives, and ‘good’ seems to be a naïve, utopian fantasy. ‘Good’ is reserved for superheroes and children’s stories, while the ‘real world’ is driven by greed, violence, and hatred. If we are so consumed with evil, then is there any point to writing about it? Perhaps the more important question is ‘why should we ever stop writing about it?’. Towards that end, this volume is intended to act as a catalyst to an ongoing destabilization of mental (philosophical) and social (political, historical) regimes of ‘evil’ in thought and practice. It is compiled with the intention of saying something new about a very old topic, as a reminder that this is an unfinished conversation which stretches back millennia and has a deeply tangible impact on the worlds within which we live today. Contributors are Peter Brian Barry, Lima Bhuiyan, Diedra L. Clay, Zachary J. Goldberg, Sophia Kanaouti, Stefanie Schnitzer Mills, Rallie Murray, Asli Tekinay and Claudio Vescia Zanini.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Politics and Philosophy in the Face of Evil Rallie Murray PART 1 (Re)Presentations of Evil in Media, Philosophy and Literature 1 Evil and the Subversion of Factual Discourse in Found Footage Films Claudio Vescia Zanini 2 The Arch of Pinteresque Drama: Power and Evil Aslı Tekinay 3 On the Possibility of Diabolical Action Peter Brian Barry 4 Exorcising Demons of Moral Philosophy: What Evil and Inescapable Wrongdoing Can Tell Us about Moral Interaction Zachary J. Goldberg PART 2 The Dangerous Ones: When Evil Was a Woman 5 Dionysus and the Feminine Dierdra L. Clay 6 The Belief in Evil and Its Redefinition During the Salem Witch Trials Stefanie Schnitzer Mills PART 3 Space/Times of Evil: Political Life and Social Worlds 7 Media ‘Heroes’: Evil Disinvested Sophia Kanaouti 8 Exploring the Banality of Bureaucracy in Carceral States Rallie Murray 9 The Justified Villain: Television, Terrorism, and Re-Examining Evil Lima Bhuiyan Index
