Law and Evil opens, expands and deepens our understanding of the
phenomenon of evil by addressing the theoretical relationship
between this phenomenon and law. Hannah Arendt said 'the problem of
evil will be the fundamental question of post-war intellectual life
in Europe'. This statement is, unfortunately, more than valid in
the contemporary world: not only in the events of war, crimes
against humanity, terror, repression, criminality, violence,
torture, human trafficking, and so on; but also as evil is used
rhetorically to condemn these acts, to categorise their
perpetrators, and to justify forcible measures, both in
international and domestic politics and law.
But what is evil? Evil as a concept is too often taken as
something that is self-evident, something that is always already
defined. Taking Kant's concept of radical evil as a starting point,
this volume counters such a tendency. Bringing together
philosophical, political, and psychoanalytical perspectives, in
analysing both the concept and the phenomenon of evil, the
contributors to this volume offer a rich and thoroughgoing analysis
of the multifaceted phenomenon of evil and its relationship to
law.
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