Confronting Evils: Terrorism, Torture, Genocide, Claudia Card (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010), xix + 329 pp., paperback, 35.00, electronic version available
“Increasingly since 9/11,” Claudia Card writes near the beginning of her recent study Confronting Evils: Terrorism, Torture, Genocide, “philosophers are giving sustained attention to that precise secular sense of ‘evil’ in which it refers to especially heinous wrongs” (p. 3, emphasis added). Card�...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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2012
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2012, Volume: 26, Issue: 1, Pages: 159-161 |
| Review of: | Confronting evils (Cambridge : Cambridge Univ. Press, 2011) (Böhm, Peter)
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| Summary: | “Increasingly since 9/11,” Claudia Card writes near the beginning of her recent study Confronting Evils: Terrorism, Torture, Genocide, “philosophers are giving sustained attention to that precise secular sense of ‘evil’ in which it refers to especially heinous wrongs” (p. 3, emphasis added). Card's own understanding of evil, as she presents it, is not limited to yet another analysis of heinous wrongs as the sole (or most significant) instances of evil. Instead she attempts—successfully—to develop a concept of evil that allows us not only to speak to the differing degrees of evil, but also to include within its theoretical confines various kinds of evil. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcs025 |