Victoria S. Harrison - The History of Evil in the Early Twentieth Century: 1900-1950

The fifth volume of The History of Evil covers the twentieth century from 1900 through 1950. The period saw the maturation of intellectual movements such as Pragmatism and Phenomenology, and the full emergence of several new academic disciplines; all these provided novel intellectual tools that were used to shed light on a human capacity for evil that was becoming increasingly hard to ignore. An underlying theme of the volume is the effort to reconstruct an understanding of human nature after confidence in its intrinsic goodness and moral character had been shaken by world events. The chapters in this volume cover globally relevant topics such as education, propaganda, power, oppression, and genocide, and include perspectives on evil drawn from across the world. Theological and atheistic responses to evil are also examined in the volume.

This outstanding treatment of approaches to evil at a determinative period of modernity will appeal to those with interests in the intellectual history of the era, as well as to those with interests in the political, philosophical and theological movements that matured within it.

Victoria S. Harrison is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Macau, China.

Chad Meister is Professor of Philosophy and Theology at Bethel College, USA.

Charles Taliaferro is Professor of Philosophy at St Olaf College, USA.

Series Editors: Chad Meister and Charles Taliaferro

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Edited by Victoria S. Harrison
Series editors: Chad Meister and Charles Taliaferro

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Names: Angier, Tom P. S., editor.

Title: The history of evil / edited by Tom Angier, Chad Meister, and Charles Taliaferro.

Description: 1 [edition]. | New York : Routledge-Taylor & Francis, 2016. | Includes index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2015048701 | ISBN 9781138642300 (v. 1 : hbk)

Subjects: LCSH: Good and evilHistory.

Classification: LCC BJ1401 .H57 2016 | DDC 170.9dc23

LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015048701

ISBN: 978-1-138-23716-2 (Set, hbk)

ISBN: 978-1-138-64230-0 (Vol I, hbk)

ISBN: 978-1-315-63005-2 (Vol I, ebk)

ISBN: 978-1-138-23680-6 (Vol II, hbk)

ISBN: 978-1-351-13852-9 (Vol II, ebk)

ISBN: 978-1-138-23682-0 (Vol III, hbk)

ISBN: 978-1-351-13848-2 (Vol III, ebk)

ISBN: 978-1-138-23683-7 (Vol IV, hbk)

ISBN: 978-1-351-13840-6 (Vol IV, ebk)

ISBN: 978-1-138-23684-4 (Vol V, hbk)

ISBN: 978-1-351-13836-9 (Vol V, ebk)

ISBN: 978-1-138-23687-5 (Vol VI, hbk)

ISBN: 978-1-351-13960-1 (Vol VI, ebk)

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