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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Main Author: Böhm, Peter (Author)
Format: Electronic Review
Language:English
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Published: Oxford University Press 2012
In: 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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