Sartre and Evil - Guidelines for a Struggle

List of contents

Introduction
Intuitively Responding to Evil
Evil and Lucidity
Unmasking "Noble Evil"
Bewitching Evil
Horror and Evil
The Ontology of Evil
Sartre's Ontology of Evil and the Poverty of the Social Sciences
Evil for Evil's Sake
The Consciousness of Genet: A Rejection of Fanaticism
Genet's Redemption From a Life of Evil
Evil and Society
Fighting Evil Straightforwardly
Sartre's Tone of Moral Indignation
Seriality versus Education
Passivity, Black Pride, and Evil
Passivity and the Distortion of Truth and Knowledge
Some Problems
Summary
Appendix
Bibliography
Index

About the author

HAIM GORDON is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Education at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. He has published widely in philosophy and education, and is the author of Naguib Mahfouz's Egypt: Existential Themes in His Writings (Greenwood, 1990) and Make Room for Dreams: Spiritual Challenges to Zionism (Greenwood, 1989), editor of the forthcoming Dictionary of Existentialism, andd coeditor of Women's and Men's Liberation: Testimonies of Spirit (Greenwood, 1991). He has been active in the struggle for human rights in Israel and the Occupied Territories.

RIVCA GORDON is general director of the Foundation for Democratic Education in Israel and chairperson of the Gaza Team for Human Rights. She has published scholarly articles on Sartre.

Product details

• Authors: Haim Gordon, Hayim Gordon, Gordon Haim, Gordon Rivca
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.02.1995
• EAN: 9780313278617
• ISBN: 978-0-313-27861-7
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; French, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Phenomenology, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Existentialism, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, world history, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Phenomenology & Existentialism, Phenomenology and Existentialism