{"product_id":"piercing-the-shroud-destabilizations-of-evil-9789004384538","title":"Piercing the Shroud: Destabilizations of ‘Evil’","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOur 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements  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","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210762707287,"sku":"9789004384538","price":75.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/piercing-the-shroud-destabilizations-of-evil-9789004384538","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}