This timely book by philosopher Peter Dews explores the idea ofevil, one of the most problematic terms in the contemporary moralvocabulary.* Surveys the intellectual debate on the nature of evil over thepast two hundred years* Engages with a broad range of discourses and thinkers, fromKant and the German Idealists, via Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, toLevinas and Adorno* Suggests that the concept of moral evil touches on a neuralgicpoint in western culture* Argues that, despite the widespread abuse and politicalmanipulation of the term 'evil', we cannot do withoutit* Concludes that if we use the concept of evil, we mustacknowledge its religious dimension
