Modernity and the problem of evil / edited by Alan D. Schrift.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Radical Evil" Revived: Hitler, Kant, Luther, Neo-Lacanians / Henry Staten -- Liquidating the "Nearly Just Society": Radical Evil's Triumphant Return / William L. McBride -- Violence and Secularization, Evil and Redemption / Martin Beck Matustik -- Disenchantment and the Persistence of Evil: Habermas, Jonas, Badiou / Peter Dews -- How Rape Became a Crime against Humanity: History of an Error / Debra B. Bergoffen -- Ways of Winning: The Costs of Moral Victory in Transitional Regimes / Robert Meister -- Abjection and Film: Displacing the Fetishistic, Racist Rhetoric of Political Projection / Tina Chanter -- Faith, Territory, and Evil / William E. Connolly -- Hannah Arendt on the Bourgeois Origins of Totalitarian Evil / Robert B. Pippin -- Evil, Evils, and the Question of Ethics / Adi Ophir -- Incursions of Evil: The Double Bind of Alterity / Edith Wyschogrod