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New demons : rethinking power and evil today / Simona Forti ; translated by Zakiya Hanafi.

Publication | Not Digitized | Library Call Number: BJ1404 .F6713 2015

Overview

Uniform Title: Nuovi demoni. English
Series: Cultural memory in the present
Cultural memory in the present.
Format: Book
Author/Creator: Forti, Simona, author.
Published: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2015]
Contents: Part I. Absolute demons : the power of nothingness. The Dostoevsky paradigm ; Instincts, drives, and their vicissitudes : Nietzsche and Freud ; Ontological evil and the transcendence of evil ; Interlude : hypermoral biopolitics ; Thanatopolitics and absolute victims
Part II. Mediocre demons : toward a new paradigm. The legend of the grand inquisitor reinterpreted from below ; A different genealogy : the evil of docility ; Strategies of obedience and the ethos of freedom ; Parrhesia put to the test : practices of dissidence between eastern and western Europe ; Poor devils who "worship" life : us.
Notes: Includes index.

"First published as I nuovi demoni in March 2012 by Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Editore, Milan, Italy."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I. Absolute demons : the power of nothingness. The Dostoevsky paradigm ; Instincts, drives, and their vicissitudes : Nietzsche and Freud ; Ontological evil and the transcendence of evil ; Interlude : hypermoral biopolitics ; Thanatopolitics and absolute victims -- Part II. Mediocre demons : toward a new paradigm. The legend of the grand inquisitor reinterpreted from below ; A different genealogy : the evil of docility ; Strategies of obedience and the ethos of freedom ; Parrhesia put to the test : practices of dissidence between eastern and western Europe ; Poor devils who "worship" life : us.

Translated from the Italian.

Physical Details

Language: English
ISBN: 9780804786249
0804786240
9780804792950
080479295X
Physical Description: xiv, 388 pages ; 24 cm.

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects: Good and evil. Power (Philosophy) Ethics, Modern--19th century. Ethics, Modern--20th century. Political science--Philosophy. Ethics, Modern. Ethik. Macht. Das Böse.

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