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This Thing of Darkness
Perspectives on Evil and Human Wickedness
Series: - At the Interface / Probing the Boundaries, Volume: 7
Written across the disciplines of art history, literature, philosophy, sociology, and theology, the ten essays comprising the collection all insist on multidimensional definitions of evil.
Taking its title from a moment in Shakespeareâs Tempest when Prospero acknowledges his responsibility for Caliban, this collection explores the necessarily ambivalent relationship between humanity and evil. To what extent are a given societyâs definitions of evil self-serving? Which figures are marginalized in the process of identifying evil? How is humanity itself implicated in the production of evil? Is evil itself something fundamentally human? These questions, indicative of the kinds of issues raised in this collection, seem all the more pressing in light of recent world events.
The ten essays were originally presented at the First Global Conference on Perspectives on Evil and Human Wickedness, held in March 2000 in Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University.
Taking its title from a moment in Shakespeareâs Tempest when Prospero acknowledges his responsibility for Caliban, this collection explores the necessarily ambivalent relationship between humanity and evil. To what extent are a given societyâs definitions of evil self-serving? Which figures are marginalized in the process of identifying evil? How is humanity itself implicated in the production of evil? Is evil itself something fundamentally human? These questions, indicative of the kinds of issues raised in this collection, seem all the more pressing in light of recent world events.
The ten essays were originally presented at the First Global Conference on Perspectives on Evil and Human Wickedness, held in March 2000 in Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University.
List of Illustrations
Rob FISHER: Editorial Foreword
Richard Paul HAMILTON: Preface
Acknowledgements
ONE Katri LEHTINEN: Twentieth-Century Vampire Literature: Intimations of Evil and Power
TWO Salwa GHALY: Evil Encounters with âOthersâ in Tayeb Salih and Toni Morrison. The Case of Mustafa Saeed and Sula Peace
THREE A Visual Theology of Evil and Redemption? Wattâs Eve Trilogy and Burne-Jonesâs Altarpiece of The Nativity
FOUR David H. FISHER: Or Image of that Horror? Imagining Radical Evil
FIVE Richard Paul HAMILTON: Hier ist kein Warum? Evil at the Limits of Understanding
SIX Diana MEDLICOTT: Condemned to Artifice and Prevented from Being a Pirate: How Prisoners Convicted the Terrible Crimes Recognize Themselves in Discourse
SEVEN Deirdre BURKE: The Apostasy of the Baptized: Christians and the Holocaust
EIGHT Sandeep SINGH CHOHAN: The Exorcist: Personification of Human Wickedness or Upholder of Religious Duties?
NINE Rob FISHER: Wandering the Heath: Niebuhr and the Need for Realism
TEN Jones IRWIN: Prohibition and Transgression â Georges Bataille and the Possibility of Affirming Evil
Contributors
Index
Rob FISHER: Editorial Foreword
Richard Paul HAMILTON: Preface
Acknowledgements
ONE Katri LEHTINEN: Twentieth-Century Vampire Literature: Intimations of Evil and Power
TWO Salwa GHALY: Evil Encounters with âOthersâ in Tayeb Salih and Toni Morrison. The Case of Mustafa Saeed and Sula Peace
THREE A Visual Theology of Evil and Redemption? Wattâs Eve Trilogy and Burne-Jonesâs Altarpiece of The Nativity
FOUR David H. FISHER: Or Image of that Horror? Imagining Radical Evil
FIVE Richard Paul HAMILTON: Hier ist kein Warum? Evil at the Limits of Understanding
SIX Diana MEDLICOTT: Condemned to Artifice and Prevented from Being a Pirate: How Prisoners Convicted the Terrible Crimes Recognize Themselves in Discourse
SEVEN Deirdre BURKE: The Apostasy of the Baptized: Christians and the Holocaust
EIGHT Sandeep SINGH CHOHAN: The Exorcist: Personification of Human Wickedness or Upholder of Religious Duties?
NINE Rob FISHER: Wandering the Heath: Niebuhr and the Need for Realism
TEN Jones IRWIN: Prohibition and Transgression â Georges Bataille and the Possibility of Affirming Evil
Contributors
Index