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The Function of Evil Across Disciplinary Contexts explores answers
to two important questions about the age-old theme of evil: is
there any use in using the concept of evil in cultural,
psychological, or other secular evaluations of the world and its
productions? Most importantly, if there is, what might these
functions be? By looking across several disciplines and analyzing
evil as it is referenced across a broad spectrum of phenomena, this
work demonstrates the varying ways that we interact with the
ethical dilemma as academics, as citizens, and as people. The work
draws from authors in different fields-including history, literary
and film studies, philosophy, and psychology-and from around the
world to provide an analysis of evil in such topics as deeply
canonical as Beowulf and Shakespeare to subjects as culturally
resonant as Stephen King, Captain America, or the War on Terror. By
bringing together this otherwise disparate collection of
scholarship, this collection reveals that discussions of evil
across disciplines have always been questions of how cultures
represent that which they find socially abhorrent. This work thus
opens the conversation about evil outside of field-specific
limitations, simultaneously demonstrating the assumptions that
undergird the manner by which such a conversation proceeds.
The Functions of Evil Across Disciplinary Contexts explores answers
to two important questions about the age-old theme of evil: is
there any use in using the concept of evil in cultural,
psychological, or other secular evaluations of the world and its
productions? Most importantly, if there is, what might these
functions be? By looking across several disciplines and analyzing
evil as it is referenced across a broad spectrum of phenomena, this
work demonstrates the varying ways that we interact with the
ethical dilemma as academics, as citizens, and as people. The work
draws from authors in different fields-including history, literary
and film studies, philosophy, and psychology-and from around the
world to provide an analysis of evil in such topics as deeply
canonical as Beowulf and Shakespeare to subjects as culturally
resonant as Stephen King, Captain America, or the War on Terror. By
bringing together this otherwise disparate collection of
scholarship, this collection reveals that discussions of evil
across disciplines have always been questions of how cultures
represent that which they find socially abhorrent. This work thus
opens the conversation about evil outside of field-specific
limitations, simultaneously demonstrating the assumptions that
undergird the manner by which such a conversation proceeds.
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