Brian W. Becker

Evil and Givenness

The Thanatonic Phenomenon

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 186
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Februar 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 429g
• ISBN-13: 9781793651167
• ISBN-10: 1793651167
• Artikelnr.: 63157734

Autorenporträt

Brian W. Becker is professor of neuropsychology at Lesley University and co-editor-in-chief of the Journal for Continental Philosophy of Religion.

Inhaltsangabe

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