Shifting Paradigms of Evil in Philosophy - Reading the Armenian Genocide With the Shoah

This book develops an interdisciplinary framework rooted in philosophy for addressing political evils experienced around the world. Drawing on resources from Continental philosophy and historical studies, it argues for the relationality and continuity between political evils, using the Armenian Genocide and the Shoah as examples.

List of contents

Introduction 1. The Origins of Evil's Inscrutability: Plato, Augustine, and Kant 2. Inscrutable Evil in Continental Philosophy: Arendt and Levinas 3. Continuity of Evils: The Armenian Genocide and the Shoah 4. An Alternative Reading of Banality of Evil: The Armenian Genocide and Dr. Mehmed Reshid 5. The Non-Recognition of an Atrocity and The Evils of Turkish Genocide Denialism Conclusion

About the author

¿mge Oranl¿ is an assistant professor of philosophy at Arizona State University. Her publications include "Fanon's Frame of Violence: Undoing the Instrumental/Non-Instrumental Binary," Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies 23:8 (2021): 1106-1123, and "Epistemic Injustice from Afar: Rethinking the Denial of Armenian Genocide," Social Epistemology 35:2 (2021):120-132.

Product details

• Authors: Imge (Arizona State University Oranli, İmge Oranlı
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 29.09.2025
• EAN: 9781041052692
• ISBN: 978-1-0-4105269-2
• No. of pages: 188
• Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Ethnic Studies, Sociology, Popular Culture, Europe, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Genocide & War Crimes, PHILOSOPHY / Good & Evil, Religion: general, Warfare & defence, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Jewish Studies, Terrorism, armed struggle, Second World War, The Holocaust, Judaism, Regional Studies, Regional / International studies, Warfare and defence, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, Non-Western philosophy, Social groups: religious groups and communities