![]() ![]() It is used either to back up some political or legal decision that nobody is willing to assume fully, or else to keep in check certain developments (in science, for instance) that seem to move much more quickly than our “morals” do. To a considerable extent, this interest is polemical: The way the word “ethics” has been used lately in public discourse is bound to provoke some theoretical and conceptual nausea. Is there something about our particular historical moment that forces us to rethink what “evil” might mean? Or is the question of evil perennial, something repressed that continues to return and assert itself?Īlenka Zupančič: The theoretical necessity of rethinking the concept of evil is linked to the more general interest in the question of ethics. Cabinet: In the past several years, we have seen a marked return to “the question of evil” among philosophers and psychoanalytic theorists. ![]()
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