This Is What Evil Looks Like
Toward a Phenomenology of Evil in Postmodern Form
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4188035 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Marci Shore (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 91 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 375-396 |
| Publication date | 2024-03-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0037-783X • E-ISSN: 1944-768X |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/sor.2024.a923126 |
| OpenAlex | W4393346356, W4226187724 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
This essay draws on phenomenological and psychoanalytical insights to explore, comparatively, manifestations of evil during the twentieth-century totalitarianism and the post-truth present. The regimes of Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump, and Alexander Lukashenko provide contemporary examples. Special attention is paid to the genre of performative confession in Stalinist times and in the present. Authors mentioned include: Anne Applebaum, Hannah Arendt, Anton Chekhov, Nathan Englander, Sigmund Freud, René Girard, Jan Tomasz Gross, Irena Grudzińska Gross, Robert Hamerton-Kelly, Edmund Husserl, Leszek Kołakowski, Ivan Krastev, Marcin Król, Stanisław Jerzy Lec, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Czesław Miłosz, Jan Patočka, Tadeusz Słobodzianek, and Tomas Venclova
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Confession (law) · Epistemology · Literature · Phenomenology (philosophy) · Political ponerology · Postmodernism · Psychoanalysis · Theology · Eastern European Communism and Reforms · Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy · History · Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism · Psychology · Theology and Philosophy of Evil · Violence, Religion, and Philosophy
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |