Evil and Givenness - The Thanatonic Phenomenon

Informationen zum Autor Brian W. Becker is professor of neuropsychology and associate chair in the Department of Psychology & Applied Therapies at Lesley University. Klappentext Evil and Givenness describes a phenomenological situation exclusive to evil. The central concept in this work, the thanatonic, identifies that phenomenality proper to evil, arriving by a parasitic mode of givenness and manifesting itself through four figures: trauma, the evil eye, the foreign-body, and the abject. Zusammenfassung Evil and Givenness describes a phenomenological situation exclusive to evil. The central concept in this work, the thanatonic, identifies that phenomenality proper to evil, arriving by a parasitic mode of givenness and manifesting itself through four figures: trauma, the evil eye, the foreign-body, and the abject. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction: The Problem of the Problem of Evil Part I: Modes of Givenness Chapter 1: "They Shall Know Them by Their Fruits": A Phenomenology of Givenness Chapter 2: Parasitic Givenness Part II: The Four Horsemen of the Thanatonic Chapter 3: Lost Time: The Event of Trauma Chapter 4: The Evil Eye Chapter 5: "It is No Longer I Who Do it": The Foreign-body Chapter 6: "Surely it is Not I": The Abject Part III: Amputation of the Possible Chapter 7: Being Diminished: The Thanatonic Ego Conclusion Bibliography Index Notes About the Author

Product details

• Authors: Brian W. Becker
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2022
• EAN: 9781793651167
• ISBN: 978-1-79365-116-7
• No. of pages: 184
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Phenomenology, RELIGION / Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / Good & Evil, Ethics & moral philosophy, Philosophy of religion, Phenomenology & Existentialism, Psychoanalytical & Freudian psychology, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis