Evil in Modern Thought <subTitle>An alternative history of philosophy</subTitle> </titleInfo> <titleInfo> <title/> </titleInfo> <name type="personal"> <namePart>Neiman, Susan</namePart> <role> <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm> </role> </name> <name type="personal"> <namePart/> <role> <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm> </role> <role> <roleTerm type="text">Author</roleTerm> </role> </name> <typeOfResource>text</typeOfResource> <originInfo> <place> <placeTerm type="code" authority="marccountry">0:2</placeTerm> </place> <place> <placeTerm type="text">U.S.A</placeTerm> </place> <publisher>Princeton University Press</publisher> <dateIssued>2002</dateIssued> <issuance>monographic</issuance> </originInfo> <language> <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">eng</languageTerm> </language> <physicalDescription> <extent>358tr.</extent> <extent>Paperback, illustrations</extent> <extent>24 cm</extent> </physicalDescription> <abstract>Evil threatens human reason, for it challenges our hope that the world makes sense. For eighteenth-century Europeans, the Lisbon earthquake was manifest evil. Today we view evil as a matter of human cruelty, and Auschwitz as its extreme incarnation. Examining our understanding of evil from the Inquisition to contemporary terrorism, Susan Neiman explores who we have become in the three centuries that separate us from the early Enlightenment. In the process, she rewrites the history of modern thought and points philosophy back to the questions that originally animated it.</abstract> <note type="statement of responsibility">Susan Neiman</note> <subject> <topic>Philosophy -- Good & Evil</topic> </subject> <subject> <topic>Philosophy and religion</topic> </subject> <subject> <topic>Civilization, Modern -- Philosophy</topic> </subject> <classification authority="ddc">170</classification> <classification authority="ddc">S964-N40</classification> <identifier type="isbn">9780691117928, 0691117926</identifier> <identifier type="uri">https://data.thuviencodoc.org/books/11175/evil.jpg</identifier> <location> <url displayLabel="Cover Image">https://data.thuviencodoc.org/books/11175/evil.jpg</url> </location> <recordInfo> <recordContentSource authority="marcorg"/> <recordCreationDate encoding="marc">2023-0</recordCreationDate> <recordChangeDate encoding="iso8601">20260119071002.0</recordChangeDate> </recordInfo> </mods>