The fiction of evil / Peter Brian Barry.

Author
Barry, Peter Brian, 1974- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.
  • ©2017
Description
xviii, 190 pages ; 23 cm

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    Subject(s)
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-184) and index.
    Contents
    • Literature as philosophy
    • Skepticism about evil, part I: mythologizing evil
    • Skepticism about evil, part II: Nietzsche's war on evil
    • Conscience and character
    • The perverse, the virulent, and the satanic
    • Evil, pleasure, and malice: the conscience of Claggart
    • Evil and cruelty: the fall of Dorian Gray
    • Redemption and overcoming evil.
    ISBN
    • 9781138807778 ((hardback ; : alk. paper))
    • 113880777X ((hardback ; : alk. paper))
    • 9781138807785 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
    • 1138807788 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
    LCCN
    2016015758
    OCLC
    948089865
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