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Author:
Forti, Simona, author.
Title:
New demons : rethinking power and evil today / Simona Forti ; translated by Zakiya Hanafi.
Publisher:
Stanford University Press,
Copyright Date:
2014
Description:
xiv, 388 p. ; 23 cm.
Subject:
Good and evil.
Power (Philosophy)
Ethics, Modern--19th century.
Ethics, Modern--20th century.
Political science--Philosophy.
Other Titles:
Nuovi demoni. English
Notes:
"First published as I nuovi demoni in March 2012 by Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Editore, Milan, Italy." Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
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 -- 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.
Series:
Cultural memory in the present
ISBN:
080479295X (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780804792950 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0804786240 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780804786249 (cloth : alk. paper)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)883510770
LCCN:
2014025922
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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