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General Resources (28 items)
Textbook (6 items)
There is no one book which deals, in a summary form, with the texts and events whichwe'll cover on this course. The one book that comes closest, however, is Neiman's Evil inModern Thought; so if you're looking for a course textbook, then this is it.
Evil in modern thought: an alternative history of philosophy - Susan Neiman, 2004Book
Evil in modern thought: an alternative history of philosophy - Susan Neiman, 2015Book
[Incidentally, a useful summary of the argument contained in the book is S. Neiman,'What's the Problem of Evil?', in M.P. Lara, Re-Thinking Evil: Contemporary Perspectives(California, UP, 2001), available on the VLE, Lecture One.]
Liberal Civilisation and its Discontents: Evil, Barbarism and Empire - Tom Crook, RebeccaGill, Bertrand Taithe
Chapter | A useful overview of the issues raised in the module
Liberal Civilisation and its Discontents: Evil, Barbarism and Empire - Tom Crook, RebeccaGill, Bertrand Taithe
Chapter | A useful overview of the issues raised in the module
Further general books (7 items)
The problem of evil in the Western tradition: from the Book of Job to modern genetics -Joseph F. Kelly, 2002
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The problem of evil: a reader - Mark J. Larrimore, 2001
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Evil and international relations: human suffering in an age of terror -Renee Jeffery, 2008
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Evil and international relations: human suffering in an age of terror -Renee Jeffery, 2008
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Rethinking evil: contemporary perspectives - María Pía Lara, 2001Book
The thinker's guide to evil - Peter Vardy, Julie Arliss, c2003Book
Taking evil seriously - SamiPihlstrm, 2014
Book
Philosophical works (8 items)These are all very difficult!
Radical evil: a philosophical interrogation - Richard J. Bernstein, 2002Book
Ethics: an essay on the understanding of evil - Alain Badiou, 2002Book
The symbolism of evil - Paul Ricoeur, 1992Book
The intelligence of evil or the lucidity pact - Jean Baudrillard, 2005Book
Evil: a challenge to philosophy and theology - Paul Ricoeur, 2007Book
Radical evil - Joan Copjec, 1996Book
Modernity and the problem of evil - 2005Book
The idea of evil - Peter Dews, c2008
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Seminar/presentation texts (7 items)
Candide - Voltaire, 1997Book | Multiple copies and editions in Library please check catalogue
Justine: or, Good conduct well chastised - marquis de Sade, Rex Saviour, AustrinWainhouse, 2006
Book
Notes from underground - Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Ronald Wilks, 2009Book
On the genealogy of morals: a polemic : by way of clarification and supplement to my lastbook 'Beyond good and evil' - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Douglas Smith, 1996
Book
Heart of darkness - Joseph Conrad, 2005Book
Civilization and its discontents - Sigmund Freud, David McLintock, 2004Book
Eichmann in Jerusalem: a report on the banality of evil - Hannah Arendt, 2006Book
Lectures and essay bibliographies (227 items)
Accessible texts (1 items)
In the below bibliography some texts are the most accessible and suitable. In short, youshould go to these texts first, and move on to the others later.
Week One (23 Sep): Introduction: The problem of evil in historicalperspective (17 items)
Start with these accessible texts (6 items)
Introduction of "Evil in modern thought: an alternative history of philosophy"Chapter
Liberal Civilisation and its Discontents: Evil, Barbarism and Empire - Tom Crook, Rebecca
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Liberal Civilisation and its Discontents: Evil, Barbarism and Empire - Tom Crook, RebeccaGill, Bertrand Taithe
Chapter
The Concept of Evil - Marcus G. Singer, 2004Article
Evil and the Problem of Responsibility - Renee JefferyChapter
What’s the Problem of Evil? - S. NeimanChapter
The thinker's guide to evil - Peter Vardy, Julie Arliss, c2003Book
The problem of evil: a reader - Mark J. Larrimore, 2001Book
The puzzle of evil - Peter Vardy, 1992Book
The Devil and Demonism in Early Modern England - Nathan Johnstone, 2006Book
Rethinking evil: contemporary perspectives - María Pía Lara, 2001Book | Introduction and chapter by Neiman (which in fact is a summary of her book
listed above)
Two Concepts of Theodicy - Henry J. Schuurman, 1993Article
The Morality of Theodicies - Michael Scott, 1996Article
The problem of evil in the Western tradition: from the Book of Job to modern genetics -Joseph F. Kelly, 2002
Book
The Philosophical Problem of Evil - David A. Conway, 1988Article
Introduction and Chapter 1 of Evil and international relations: human suffering in an age ofterror
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Introduction and Chapter 1 of Evil and international relations: human suffering in an age ofterror
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Week Two (3 Oct): Whatever is, is right! Enlightenment understandingsof providential good (20 items)
Primary sources (2 items)
Selections 32 and 33 of The problem of evil: a readerChapter
An essay on man - Alexander Pope, Maynard Mack, 1950Book
Secondary sources (18 items)
Start with these accessible texts (4 items)
Chapter 1 of Evil in modern thought: an alternative history of philosophyChapter
Chapter 1 of Evil in modern thought: an alternative history of philosophyChapter
Chapter 9 Rationalizing EvilChapter
Chapters 7 and 8 of The EnlightenmentChapter
Chapters 6 and 7 of A secular ageChapter
The best of all possible worlds: a story of philosophers, God, and evil in the Age of Reason- Steven M. Nadler, 2010
Book
A Critical Exposition of the Philosophy of Leibniz: With an Appendix of Leading Passages -Bertrand Russell, 1937/1992
Book
Chapters 5, 6, and 13 of The Enlightenment - Roy PorterChapter
Chapter 7 of Evil and the god of loveChapter
Chapter 7 of Evil and the god of loveChapter
Religion and the Enlightenment: from Descartes to Kant - James M. Byrne, c1997Book
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Nature's economy: a history of ecological ideas - Donald Worster, 1985Book
Two Concepts of Theodicy - Henry J. Schuurman, 1993Article
On the Politics of Faith and Reason: The Project of Enlightenment in Pierre Bayle andMontesquieu - Robert C. Bartlett, 2001
Article
Providence, Predestination and Progress: Or, Did the Enlightenment Fail? - J. C. D. Clark,2003
Article
The Enlightenment and religion: the myths of modernity - S. J. BarnettBook
Chapter 26 of Enlightenment contested: philosophy, modernity, and the emancipation ofman, 1670-1752
Chapter
Radical enlightenment: philosophy and the making of modernity, 1650-1750 - Jonathan I.Israel, 2001
Book
Week Three (10 Oct): The death of optimism? The Lisbon earthquake of1755 (16 items)
Primary sources (2 items)
‘Rousseau versus Voltaire’Chapter
Selections 34 and 35 of The problem of evil: a readerChapter
Secondary sources (14 items)
Start with these accessible texts (3 items)
Introduction of Candide and related textsChapter
Pages 128-148 of Evil in modern thought: an alternative history of philosophyChapter
Wrath of God: the great Lisbon earthquake of 1755 - Edward Paice, 2008Book
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Voltaire, Rousseau, and the "Lettre sur la Providence" - George R. Havens, 1944Article
The last day: wrath, ruin, and reason in the great Lisbon Earthquake of 1755 - NicholasShrady, 2008
Book
The Lisbon Earthquake of 1755: Representations and Reactions (Special Issue of Studieson Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century) - Theodore E. D. Braun, 2005
Book
The Lisbon Earthquake - T. D. Kendrick, 1956Book
The Lisbon Earthquake, 1755: A discourse about the ‘nature’ of nature - ClaudiaSanides-Kohlrausch
Chapter
Chapter 6 of Religion and the Enlightenment: from Descartes to KantChapter
Safety and Reconstruction of Noto after the Sicilian Earthquake of 1693 – theEighteenth-Century Context - Stephen Tobriner
Chapter
Chapter 5 of Earthquakes in human history: the far-reaching effects of seismic disruptionsChapter
The "Demonic" Earthquake: Goethe's Myth of the Lisbon Earthquake and Fear of ModernChange - Robert H. Brown, 1992
Article
Reading the Lisbon Earthquake: Adorno, Lyotard, and the Contemporary Sublime - GeneRay, 2004
Article
Rousseau on Providence - Victor Gourevitch, 2000Article
Week Four (17 Oct): Overcoming Evil: History, Progress and thePromise of Utopia (35 items)
Primary Sources (2 items)
Chapter 10 - General Reflections - James Mill, 1818Chapter | On VLE
The Utopia Reader - Gregory Claeys, Lyman Tower Sargent, c1999Book | Excerpts contained in chs. 5,6 and 7
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History, civilization and progress (16 items)
Start with these accessible texts (2 items)
The empire of civilization: the evolution of an imperial idea - Brett Bowden, c2009Book | Excerpts on VLE
Civilization and its contents - Bruce Mazlish, 2004Book | Excerpts on VLE
The civilizing process - Norbert Elias, Edmund Jephcott, 1978Book | esp. Part One ('On the socio-genesis of the concepts "civilization" and "culture").
Other eds of this book also on catalogue.
Time in history: views of time from prehistory to the present day - G. J. Whitrow, 1988Book
Liberalism and empire: a study in nineteenth-century British liberal thought - Uday SinghMehta, 1999
Book
A turn to empire: the rise of imperial liberalism in Britain and France - Jennifer Pitts, 2005Book
Civilization: The Career of a Controverial Concept - Johan Goudsblom, 2006Article
J.S. Mill on civilization and barbarism - Michael Levin, 2004Book
Barbarian Thoughts: Imperialism in the Philosophy of John Stuart Mill - Beate Jahn, 2005Article
Evolution and society: a study in Victorian social theory - J. W. Burrow, 1966Book
The Invention of Progress: The Victorians and the Past - 1989Book | Available at the Bodleian Library
History of the idea of progress - Robert A. Nisbet, 1980Book
The idea of progress: history and society - Sidney Pollard, 1968Book | 1971 edition also available in library
The idea of progress in eighteenth-century Britain - David Spadafora, c1990Book
The idea of progress: an inquiry into its origin and growth - J. B. Bury, 1982Book
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Biology in the nineteenth century: problems of form, function and transformation - WilliamColeman, 1977
Book | Chapter 4
The idea of utopia (17 items)
Start with these accessible texts (5 items)
The practice of conceptual history: timing history, spacing concepts - Reinhart Koselleck,2002
Book | esp. ch. 5 ( 'The temporalization of uopia')
Totalitarianism and Utopia - Kamenetsky, I.Article
Homus Novus: The New Man as Allegory. - N. Skradol, 2009Article
Modernism and fascism: the sense of a beginning under Mussolini and Hitler - Roger Griffin, 2007
Book
Modernism and fascism: the sense of a beginning under Mussolini and Hitler - Roger Griffin, 2007
Book
Archaeologies of the future: the desire called Utopia and other science fictions - FredricJameson, 2005
Book
Beyond totalitarianism: Stalinism and Nazism compared - 2009Book
Beyond totalitarianism: Stalinism and Nazism compared - Michael Geyer, Sheila Fitzpatrick, 2009
Book
The Utopian mind and other papers: a critical study in moral and political philosophy -Aurel Kolnai, Francis Dunlop, 1995
Book
Utopian thought in the Western world - Frank Edward Manuel, Fritzie P. Manuel, 1979Book
Utopia and anti-Utopia in modern times - Krishan Kumar, 1987Book
Utopianism - Krishan Kumar, 1991Book
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Social science and utopia: nineteenth-century models of social harmony - Barbara Goodwin, 1978
Book
Utopia and organization - Martin Parker, 2002Book
Utopias and utopian thought - Frank Edward Manuel, 1973Book
Utopias of the British Enlightenment - Gregory Claeys, 1994Book
Nazi Modern - Peter Fritzsche, 1996Article
Week Five (24 Oct): Evil as Moral Choice: Rousseau, Kant and Free Will(21 items)
Primary Sources (3 items)
Emile - Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1992Book | Multiple copies and editions in Library please check catalogue. Also available at
Project Gutenberg
Religion within the boundaries of mere reason and other writings - Immanuel Kant, AllenW. Wood, George Di Giovanni, 1998
Book
Self-help: with illustrations of conduct and perseverance : unabridged - Samuel Smiles,Institute of Economic Affairs. Health and Welfare Unit, 1996
Book | Multiple copies and editions in Library please check catalogue. Also available atProject Gutenberg
Secondary sources (General /Kant/ Rousseau) (14 items)
Start with these accessible texts (3 items)
Pages 36-84 of Evil in modern thought: an alternative history of philosophyChapter
Tragedy and Theodicy: A Meditation on Rousseau and Moral Evil - Mark S. Cladis, 1995Article
Autonomy, obligation, and virtue: An overview of Kant’s moral philosophy - J. B.Schneewind
Chapter
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A contemporary introduction to free will - Robert Kane, 2005Book
Rousseau: an introduction to his psychological, social and political theory - N. J. H. Dent,1988
Book
Rousseau - N. J. H. Dent, 2005Book
Rousseau: a guide for the perplexed - Matthew Simpson, c2007Book
Who Lost Nature? Rousseau and Rousseauism - Jonathan Marks, 2002Article
Rousseau on Providence - Victor Gourevitch, 2000Article
Kant: a very short introduction - Roger Scruton, 2001Book
Autonomy, obligation, and virtue: An overview of Kant’s moral philosophy - J. B.Schneewind
Chapter
Chapter 1 of The idea of evilChapter
Chapter 1 of Radical evil: a philosophical interrogationChapter
Of liberty and necessity: the free will debate in eighteenth-century British philosophy -James A. Harris, c2005
Book
Character, moral agency and the Victorians (4 items)
Start with these accessible texts (1 items)
The Idea of 'Character' in Victorian Political Thought - Stefan Collini, 1985Article
Public moralists: political thought and intellectual life in Britain - Stefan Collini, 1991Book
Chapter 5 of Victorian people: a reassessment of persons and themes, 1851-67Chapter
Samuel Smiles and the Genesis of Self-Help; the Retreat to a Petit Bourgeois Utopia - R. J.
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Morris, 1981Article
Week Six (31 Oct): Mysteries of the Will: Freedom and necessity in thenineteenth century (28 items)
Primary (2 items)
Quetelet on the Study of Man - 1996Article | Extracts from Adolphe Quetelet’s 1835 [trans. 1842], A Treatise on Man
History of civilization in England - Henry Thomas Buckle, 1857Book
General secondary (5 items)
Start with these accessible texts (2 items)
Chapters 12, 13, and 15 of The problem of evil in the Western tradition: from the Book ofJob to modern genetics
Chapter
Religious thought in the Victorian Age: challenges and reconceptions - James C. Livingston,2007
Book | Especially Chapter 6
Of liberty and necessity: the free will debate in eighteenth-century British philosophy -James A. Harris, c2005
Book
Free will: a very short introduction - Thomas Pink, 2004Book
A cultural history of causality: science, murder novels, and systems of thought - StephenKern, c2004
Book
Environmental, biological and psychological conditioning (10 items)
Start with these accessible texts (2 items)
Chapter 4 of Reconstructing the criminal: culture, law and policy in England, 1830-1914Chapter
A cultural history of causality: science, murder novels, and systems of thought - StephenKern, c2004
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Book | Especially Chapter 6
Faces of degeneration: a European disorder, c.1848-c.1918 - Daniel Pick, 1989Book
The cultural meaning of popular science: phrenology and the organization of consent innineteenth-century Britain - Roger Cooter, 1984
Book
Immanence or Transcendence: Theories of Life and Organization in Britain, 1790-1835 - L.S. Jacyna, 1983
Article
The Physiology of Mind, the Unity of Nature, and the Moral Order in Victorian Thought - L.S. Jacyna, 1981
Article
Victorian psychology and British culture, 1850-1880 - Rick Rylance, 2000Book
Trial by medicine: insanity and responsibility in Victorian trials - Roger Smith, c1981Book
Dangerous sexualities: medico-moral politics in England since 1830 - Frank Mort, 2000Book | Especially Part One
Moral Geographies: Social Science and the Urban Environment in Mid-Nineteenth CenturyEngland - Felix Driver, 1988
Article
Statistics and free will (11 items)
Start with these accessible texts (2 items)
The rise of statistical thinking, 1820-1900 - Theodore M. Porter, 1986Book | Especially chapters 2 and 6
The taming of chance - Ian Hacking, 1990Book | Especially chapters 14 and 15
Science, reform and politics in Victorian Britain: the Social Science Association, 1857-1886- Lawrence Goldman, 2007
Book
The Critics of Buckle - G. A. Wells, 1956Article
H. T. Buckle: The Liberal Faith and the Science of History - Bernard Semmel, 1976Article
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Statistical and Social Facts from Quetelet to Durkheim - Theodore M. Porter, 1995Article
Adolphe Quetelet and the Origins of Positivist Criminology - Piers Beirne, 1987Article
Statistical Regularity and Free Will: L.A.J. Quetelet and P.A. Nekrasov - Eugene Seneta,2003
Article
The Pointsman: Maxwell's Demon, Victorian Free Will, and the Boundaries of Science -Matthew Stanley, 2008
Article
The Mathematics of Society: Variation and Error in Quetelet's Statistics - Theodore M.Porter, 1985
Article
The Average Victorian: Constructing and Contesting Reality - Christopher Kent, 1989Article
Week Seven (7 Nov): Twilight of the idols? The secular assault onChristian morality (19 items)
Primary (1 items)
First Essay: ‘Good and Evil,’ ‘Good and Bad’ - Friedrich NietzscheChapter
General secondary (8 items)
Start with these accessible texts (4 items)
Chapter 4 of Secularisation in Western Europe, 1848-1914Chapter
Chapters 7, 8 and 9 of The secularization of the European mind in the nineteenth centuryChapter
Chapter 3 of God's funeralChapter
A secular age - Charles Taylor, c2007Book | Especially chapters 10 and 11
Contesting cultural authority: essays in Victorian intellectual life - Frank M. Turner, 1993Book
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The religion of humanity: the impact of Comtean Positivism on Victorian Britain - T. R.Wright, 1986
Book
Science and scientism in nineteenth-century Europe - Richard Olson, c2008Book
The Gospel According to Renan Reading, Writing, and Religion in Nineteenth-CenturyFrance (Oxford Historical Monographs) - Robert D. Priest, 2015
Book
On Nietzsche (10 items)
Chapter 6 of An introduction to Nietzsche as political thinker: the perfect nihilistChapter
Chapter 4 of Friedrich Nietzsche and the politics of transfigurationChapter
On the Morals of Genealogy - Jacqueline Stevens, 2003Article
Chapter 1 and 2 of Nietzsche & the politicalChapter
Nietzsche: the man and his philosophy - R. J. Hollingdale, 1985Book
Nietzsche: a very short introduction - Michael Tanner, 2000Book
Nietzsche - Robert Wicks, 2006Book
Nietzsche: a guide for the perplexed - R. Kevin Hill, c2007Book
The philosophy of Nietzsche - Rex Welshon, 2004Book
Chapter 4 of Nietzsche contra RousseauChapter
Week Eight (14 Nov): European Barbarisms: From the Congo toAuschwitz (38 items)
Primary (3 items)
The eyes of another race: Roger Casement's Congo report and 1903 diary - Roger
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Casement,SeamasO
Siochain, Michael O'Sullivan, 2003
Book
King Leopold's rule in Africa - E. D. Morel, 1904Book
Eichmann in Jerusalem: a report on the banality of evil - Hannah Arendt, 2006Book
Colonial atrocities in the Congo (18 items)
Start with these accessible texts (4 items)
Colonialism and genocide - A. Dirk Moses, Dan Stone, 2007Book
King Leopold's ghost: a story of greed, terror, and heroism in colonial Africa - AdamHochschild, 2002
Book
King Leopold's ghost: a story of greed, terror and heroism in colonial Africa - AdamHochschild, 2012
Book
Victorians and Africans: The Genealogy of the Myth of the Dark Continent - PatrickBrantlinger, 1985
Article
The Congo from Leopold to Kabila: a people's history - Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja, 2002Book
Leopold II of the Belgians: king of colonialism - Barbara Emerson, 1979Book
Ends of British Imperialism: the scramble for empire, Suez and decolonization : collectedessays - William Roger Louis, 2006
Book
A civilised savagery: Britain and the new slaveries in Africa, 1884-1926 - Kevin Grant, 2005
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Roger Casement and the Congo - William Roger Louis, 1964Article
The Spectacle of Africa through the Lens of Herbert Lang: Belgian Congo Photographs1909-1915 - Enid Schildkrout, 1991
Article
Snap of the Whip/Crossroads of Shame: Flogging, Photography, and the Representation ofAtrocity in the Congo Reform Campaign - John Peffer, 2008
Article
E. D. Morel and the Crusade against the Foreign Office - Catherine Ann Cline, 1967Article
The Debate on the Congo, 1900 to 1908 - E. Halladay, 1968Article
The devil and Mr Casement: one man's struggle for human rights in South America's heartof darkness - Jordan Goodman, 2009
Book
The Congo Rubber Atrocities -- A Case Study - Roger Anstey, 1971Article
Roger Casement - Brian Inglis, 1973Book
British Humanitarianism and the Congo Reform Movement, 1896-1913 - Dean Pavlakis,2015
Book
Belgium and the Congo, 1885-1980 - Guy Vanthemsche, Kate Connelly, 2012Book
Understanding the Holocaust (17 items)
Start with these accessible texts (3 items)
Modernity and the holocaust - Zygmunt Bauman, 1989Book
Sociology after the Holocaust - Zygmunt Bauman, 1988Article
Genocide, Civilization and Modernity - Michael Freeman, 1995Article
Unmasking administrative evil - Guy B. Adams, Danny L. Balfour, 2009
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Empire, colony, genocide: conquest, occupation, and subaltern resistance in world history -A. Dirk Moses, 2008
Book
Chapter 11 and 12 of The pathology of manChapter
Chapter 6 of Evil and international relations: human suffering in an age of terrorChapter | On Arendt and ‘evil as thoughtlessness’
Chapter 6 of Evil and international relations: human suffering in an age of terrorChapter | On Arendt and ‘evil as thoughtlessness
Chapter 4 of Evil in modern thought: an alternative history of philosophyChapter
Understanding the Holocaust: an introduction - Dan Cohn-Sherbok, 1999Book
Approaches to Auschwitz: the Holocaust and its legacy - Richard L. Rubenstein, John K.Roth, c2003
Book
Terror and the sublime in art and critical theory: from Auschwitz to Hiroshima toSeptember 11 - Gene Ray, 2005
Book
Ethics and extermination: reflections on Nazi genocide - Michael Burleigh, 1997Book
Hannah Arendt and the Jewish question - Richard J. Bernstein, 1996Book
Hitler's willing executioners: ordinary Germans and the Holocaust - Daniel JonahGoldhagen, 1997
Book
Why Did the Nazis Burn the Hebrew Bible? Nazi Germany, Representations of the Past, andthe Holocaust - Alon Confino, 2012
Article
War crimes, genocide, and justice: a global history - David Crowe, 2014Book
Week Nine (21 Nov) (1 items)
No set reading
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Week Ten (28 Nov): The Discovery of “the Unconscious:” Psychology,Psychoanalysis and Moral Autonomy (31 items)
Primary (2 items)
The Freud reader - Sigmund Freud, Peter Gay, 1995Book | Read extract of Sigmund Freud, "Civilisation and its Discontents" [1930]
especially pages 742-72.
Civilization and its discontents - Sigmund Freud, David McLintock, 2004Book
The discovery of the unconscious (12 items)
Start with these accessible texts (2 items)
Chapter 4 of Reconstructing the criminal: culture, law and policy in England, 1830-1914Chapter
Chapter 6 of A cultural history of causality: science, murder novels, and systems ofthought
Chapter
Cambridge history of twentieth-century political thought - Terence Ball, Richard Bellamy,2003
Book
Psychoanalysis in Britain in the Early Twentieth Century: An Introductory Note - SallyAlexander, 1998
Article
Chapter 8 of The Cambridge History of Philosophy 1870-1945Chapter
Britain on the Couch: The Popularization of Psychoanalysis in Britain 1918—1940 - GrahamRichards, 2000
Article
Madness: a brief history - Roy Porter, 2002Book
A history of psychiatry: from the era of the asylum to the age of prozac - Edward Shorter,c1997
Book
The Freud files: an inquiry into the history of psychoanalysis - Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen, SonuShamdasani, 2012
Book
Cassandra's daughter: a history of psychoanalysis - Joseph Schwartz, 1999
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Cassandra's daughter: a history of psychoanalysis - Joseph Schwartz, 2003Book
Mesmerized: powers of mind in Victorian Britain - Alison Winter, 1998Book
Freud (17 items)
Chapter 1 of Freud, Jews and other Germans: masters and victims in modernist cultureChapter
Freud: a life for our time - Peter Gay, c2006Book
The Cambridge companion to Freud - Jerome Neu, 1991Book | See especially Chapter 1 (Schorske), Chapter 4 (Hopkins), Chapter 8 (Church)
and Chapter 12 (Deigh)
The Early Discovery of Freud by the British General Educated Public, 1912–1919 - DeanRapp, 1990
Article
The Origins of Freud's Political Psychology - Philip Rieff, 1956Article
Freud: the mind of the moralist - Philip Rieff, 1979Book
Liberalisms and the limits of knowledge and freedom: On the epistemological and socialbases of negative liberty - Darrow Schecter, 2007
Article
Freud - Richard Wollheim, 1971Book | Especially Chapter 6
Sigmund Freud - Pamela Thurschwell, 2000Book
Chapter 10 of Continental philosophy since 1750: the rise and fall of the selfChapter
What Freud really said - David Stafford-Clark, 1967Book
What Freud really said - David Stafford-Clark, 1992Book
The Unconscious - Sebastian GardnerChapter
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Freud’s later theory of civilisation: Changes and implications - John DeighChapter
Chapter 4 ofFin-de-siecle Vienna: politics and culture
Chapter
Freud, an introduction to his life and work - J. N. Isbister, 1985Book
Freud's models of the mind: an introduction - Joseph Sandler, University College, London.Psychoanalysis Unit, Anna Freud Centre, 1997
Book | Especially Part 3 pages 55-138
Seminars: Presentation and gobbet bibliographies (129 items)
Week Four (17 Oct): Voltaire’s Candide and the attack on ‘optimism’ (17 items)
Set text/s: (2 items)
Candide - Voltaire, 1997 [1759]Book | There are further copies in the library
Candide - VoltaireBook
General reading (15 items)
Start with these accessible texts (3 items)
Section on Voltaire - Chapter 2 of Evil in modern thought: an alternative history ofphilosophy
Chapter
'Rationalizing Evil’ - Chapter 9 of The problem of evil in the Western tradition: from theBook of Job to modern genetics
Chapter
Candide's Garden - William F. Bottiglia, 1951Article | However, there are numerous extended quotes in French – so beware!
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Most editions of Candide, of which there are now hundreds, will normally contain a usefulintroduction from the editor.
Voltaire: Candide - W. H. Barber, 1960Book
Voltaire - Haydn Mason, 1975Book
Pierre Bayle and Voltaire - Haydn Mason, 1963Book
Voltaire and the century of light - A. Owen Aldridge, 1975Book
'On Voltaire' Chapter 30 of Enlightenment contested: philosophy, modernity, and theemancipation of man, 1670-1752
Chapter
Voltaire - John Edward Nicholl Hearsey, 1976Book
The Lisbon Earthquake of 1755: Representations and Reactions (Special Issue of Studieson Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century) - Theodore E. D. Braun, 2005
Book
Voltaire, Rousseau, and the "Lettre sur la Providence" - George R. Havens, 1944Article | However, there are numerous extended quotes in French – so beware!
Wrath of God: the great Lisbon earthquake of 1755 - Edward Paice, 2008Book
The last day: wrath, ruin, and reason in the great Lisbon Earthquake of 1755 - NicholasShrady, 2008
Book
Chapter 6 of Religion and the Enlightenment: from Descartes to KantChapter
Week Five (24 Oct): Beyond morality? De Sade and the dictates ofNature (18 items)
Set text/s (2 items)
Justine: or, Good conduct well chastised [1791] [or various other titles] - Marquis de SadeBook | Chapters. 1-8 on VLE
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Two copies are also available in the library; however, the copies by 'Rex Saviour', are, soto speak, for a particular kind of audience – and the philosophical passages have beenedited out – in short, if you're studying the text properly use the VLE version or obtain aphotocopy of tutor's copy. Justine also forms part of numerous anthologies.
Further Readings (16 items)
The Marquis de Sade: a very short introduction - John Phillips, 2005Book
How to read Sade - John Phillips, 2005Book
Evil in modern thought: an alternative history of philosophy - Susan Neiman, 2004Book | Ch. 2 (the section on de Sade)
Evil in modern thought: an alternative history of philosophy - Susan Neiman, 2015Book | Ch. 2 (the section on de Sade)
The philosophy of the Marquis de Sade - Timo Airaksinen, 1995Book
Sade and the Pornographic Legacy - Frances Ferguson, 1991Article
Three Contemporaries. - Polat, Necati, Winter 2000Article
Dark eros: the imagination of sadism - Thomas Moore, 1994Book
De Sade's quantitative moral universe of irony, rhetoric, and boredom - Roberta J. Hackel,1976
Book
Sade my neighbor - Pierre Klossowski, 1992Book
The Sadeian woman: an exercise in cultural history - Angela Carter, 1979Book
Forbidden knowledge: from Prometheus to pornography - Roger Shattuck, 1997Book | Ch. 7
Marquis de Sade: a biography - Maurice Lever, 1995Book
The Marquis de Sade: a life - Neil Schaeffer, 1999Book
At home with the Marquis de Sade - Francine du Plessix Gray, 2000
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Marquis de Sade: the genius of passion - Ronald Hayman, 2003Book
Week Six (31 Oct): Underground man: Dostoyevsky on free will (18 items)
Set Text/s: (2 items)
Notes from underground - Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Ronald Wilks, 2009Book | Chapter One ('The Underground') - on VLE
There are numerous versions available of this text. Students are encouraged to buy thelatest edition by Hackett Publishing, 2009, with and extensive introduction by CharlesGuignon and Kevin Aho. A copy is also available from Project Gutenberg athttps://www.gutenberg.org/files/600/600-h/600-h.htm
Further Reading: (16 items)
Nihilism and "Notes from Underground" - Joseph Frank, 1961Article
Dostoevsky the thinker - James P. Scanlan, 2002Book | Especially Ch. 2
Abstraction in Dostoyevsky's "Notes from the Underground" - J.R. Hall, 1981Article
The Case against Rational Egoism in Dostoevsky's Notes from the Underground - James P.Scanlan, 1999
Article
Dostoyevsky's Metaphor of the "Underground" - Monroe C. Beardsley, 1942Article | On VLE
Old Testament Lamentation in the Underground Man's Monologue: A Refutation of theExistentialist Reading of Notes from the Underground - Olga Meerson, 1992
Article
The Rhetoric of Confession: Dostoevskij's Notes from Underground and Rousseau'sConfessions - Barbara F. Howard, 1981
Article
The Taming of Chance - Ian Hacking, 1990Book | Ch. 17 - ' The most ancient mobility'.
The Cambridge companion to Dostoevskii - William J. Leatherbarrow, 2002Book | Ch. 10
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Dostoevsky and the novel - Michael Holquist, 1977Book
Dostoevsky -Andre Gide, 1967
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Dostoevsky - John Jones, 1983Book
Dostoyevsky: an examination of the major novels - Richard Peace, 1971Book
New essays on Dostoyevsky - Garth M. Terry, Malcolm V. Jones, 1983Book
Great exhibitions: representations of the Crystal Place in Mayhew, Dickens and Dostoevsky- 1997
Article | Copy available from TC
Existentialism: a very short introduction - Thomas R. Flynn, 2006Book
Week Seven (7 Nov): Of slaves and masters: Nietzsche's genealogy ofgood and evil (16 items)
Set Text/s: (2 items)
On the genealogy of morals: a polemic : by way of clarification and supplement to my lastbook 'Beyond good and evil' - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Douglas Smith (Trans.), 1996
Book | First Essay: "Good and Evil", "Good and Bad" pp.11 - 38.
Also on VLE
Beyond good and evil: prelude to a philosophy of the future - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche,R. J. Hollingdale, Michael Tanner, 2003, c1990
Book | pp. 194-8. Also on VLE
General Reading: (14 items)NB - The library stocks a wealth of books on Nietzsche; students are encouraged to look forthemselves.
An introduction to Nietzsche as political thinker: the perfect nihilist - Keith Ansell-Pearson,1994
Book | Ch. 6 pp.121-44
Evil in modern thought: an alternative history of philosophy - Susan Neiman, 2004
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Evil in modern thought: an alternative history of philosophy - Susan Neiman, 2015Book | Ch. 3
Nietzsche on Ressentiment and Valuation - Bernard Reginster, 1997Article
Nietzsche, Genealogy, History - Michel FoucaultChapter
On the Morals of Genealogy - Jacqueline Stevens, 2003Article
Friedrich Nietzsche and the politics of transfiguration - Tracy B. Strong, 2000Book | Ch. 4, pp. 87-107
Nietzsche & the political - Daniel W. Conway, 1997Book | Chs. 1 & 2, pp. 6-42
Nietzsche: a very short introduction - Michael Tanner, 2000Book
Nietzsche: the man and his philosophy - R. J. Hollingdale, 1985Book
Nietzsche - Robert Wicks, 2006Book
Nietzsche: a guide for the perplexed - R. Kevin Hill, c2007Book
The philosophy of Nietzsche - Rex Welshon, 2004Book
Nietzsche contra Rousseau - Keith Ansell-Pearson, 1996Book | BOD
Week Eight (14 Nov): The horror! The horror! Conrad's Heart ofDarkness (22 items)
Set Text/s: (2 items)
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad, 1899Book | VLE
There are numerous copies of this text in the library, often anthologized and annotatedalongside other of Conrad's writings. The text is also available at Project Gutenberg :
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/219/219-h/219-h.htm
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General Reading: (20 items)NB. The library stocks a wealth of books on Conrad; students are encouraged to look forthemselves
Conrad's Horror: Heart of Darkness and the Imaginary of Power - T. OsborneChapter | Essential
Conrad's Horror: Heart of Darkness and the Imaginary of PowerChapter | Essential
At the Heart of Darkness: Crimes against Humanity and the Banality of Evil - BirgitMaier-Katkin and Daniel Maier-Katkin, 2004
Article
Conrad's Bureaucrats: Agency, Bureaucracy and the Problem of Intention. - Daniel BivonaArticle
Victorians and Africans: The Genealogy of the Myth of the Dark Continent - PatrickBrantlinger, 1985
Article
Imperialism: Conrad's Heart of Darkness - Jonah Raskin, 1967Article
The Ultimate Meaning of "Heart of Darkness" - Florence H. Ridley, 1963Article
Conrad's Critique of Imperialism in Heart of Darkness - Hunt Hawkins, 1979Article
The Cambridge companion to Joseph Conrad - J. H. Stape, 1996Book | Ch. 3 (on Heart of Darkness)
Joseph Conrad's Heart of darkness - D. C. R. A. Goonetilleke, 2007Book
Joseph Conrad 'Heart of darkness' - Richard Adams, 1991Book
Conrad: a reassessment - Douglas Hewitt, 1975Book
Joseph Conrad and the West: signs of empire - Jacques Darras, 1982Book
Conrad: a collection of critical essays - Marvin Mudrick, 1966Book
Conrad: the moral world of the novelist - R. A. Gekoski, 1978Book
Conrad and imperialism: ideological boundaries and visionary frontiers - Benita Parry, 1983
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Conrad at the millennium: modernism, postmodernism, postcolonialism - Gail Fincham,Attie De Lange, Wieslaw Krajka, Uniwersytet Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej, 2001
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Conrad's western world - Norman Sherry, 1971Book
British Humanitarianism and the Congo Reform Movement, 1896-1913 - Dean Pavlakis,2015
Book
Belgium and the Congo, 1885-1980 - Guy Vanthemsche, Kate Connelly, 2012Book
Week Nine : Tutorials
Week Ten (28 Nov): Freud, civilization and the urge to evil (12 items)
Set Text/s: (1 items)
The Freud reader - Sigmund Freud, Peter Gay, 1995Book | Read Sigmund Freud, Civilisation and its Discontents (1930), the most significant
parts of which are extracted in the Gay book, pp. 722-72. You may, however, read onlypp.742-72. Complete versions of the text are also available to download from the web
General Reading: (11 items)NB - The library stocks a wealth of books on Freud; students are encouraged to look forthemselves.
The Freud reader - Sigmund Freud, Peter Gay, 1995Book | Introduction pp. xiii-xxix
Freud - Richard Wollheim, 1971Book | esp. Ch. 6, pp. 157-76
Sigmund Freud - Pamela Thurschwell, 2000Book
Continental philosophy since 1750: the rise and fall of the self - Robert C. Solomon, 1988Book | Ch.10, pp.139-51
What Freud really said - David Stafford-Clark, 1967Book
The Unconscious - Sebastian GardnerChapter
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Freud's later theory of civilisation: Changes and implications - John DeighChapter
Fin-de-siecle Vienna: politics and culture - Carl E. Schorske, 1980
Book | Ch. 4, pp. 181-207
Freud, an introduction to his life and work - J. N. Isbister, 1985Book
Freud's models of the mind: an introduction - Joseph Sandler, University College, London.Psychoanalysis Unit, Anna Freud Centre, 1997
Book | esp. Part III, pp.55-138
Freud, Jews and other Germans: masters and victims in modernist culture - Peter Gay,1978
Book | Ch. 1, pp. 29-92
Week Eleven (5 Dec): Desktop murderers? Arendt, Eichmann and the'banality of evil' (26 items)
Discussion this week will also be accompanied by some more general consideration on thecourse as a whole. See:
Radical evil: a philosophical interrogation - Richard J. Bernstein, 2002Book | The 'Conclusion' only, pp. 225-235.
Also on VLE
Set Text/s: (2 items)
Eichmann in Jerusalem: a report on the banality of evil - Hannah Arendt, 2006Book | Chs. 2 & 3, Epilogue and Postscript.
Also on VLE
Numerous versions are now available of this work.
Further Reading: (22 items)NB. The library stocks a wealth of books on Arendt; students are encouraged to look forthemselves.
Evil in modern thought: an alternative history of philosophy - Susan Neiman, 2015Book | Ch. 4
Evil in modern thought: an alternative history of philosophy - Susan Neiman, 2004Book | Ch. 4
The Secularity of Evil: Hanah Arendt and the Eichmann Controversy - Dagme Barnouw,1983
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Holes of Oblivion : The Banality of Radical Evil. - Peg Birmingham, 2003Article
Hannah Arendt on Eichmann: The Public, the Private and Evil - Shiraz Dossa, 1984Article
Hannah Arendt and the Jewish question - Richard J. Bernstein, 1996Book
Modernity and the holocaust - Zygmunt Bauman, 1989Book
Unmasking administrative evil - Guy B. Adams, Danny L. Balfour, 2009Book
Radical evil: a philosophical interrogation - Richard J. Bernstein, 2002Book
Thinking in dark times: Hannah Arendt on ethics and politics - Roger Berkowitz, Jeff Katz,Thomas Keenan, 2009
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Arendt: a guide for the perplexed - Karin A. Fry, c2009Book
Hannah Arendt: politics, conscience, evil - George Kateb, 1984Book
Hannah Arendt: a reinterpretation of her political thought - Margaret Canovan, 1992Book
Hannah Arendt: politics, history and citizenship - Phillip Hansen, 1993Book
The hidden philosophy of Hannah Arendt - Margaret Betz Hull, 2010Book
A Note on the Banality of Evil. - Stephen Miller, 1998Article
Politics, philosophy, terror: essays on the thought of Hannah Arendt - Dana Richard Villa,1999
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Are Arendt's Reflections on Evil Still Relevant? - Bernstein, Richard J.1, 2008Article
Beyond banality? Ethical responses to evil in post-September 11 - Renee Jeffery, 2005Article
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Hannah Arendt's Eichmann Reconsidered. - Peter Schotten, 2007Article
Questioning the banality of evil. - S. Alexander Haslam, Stephen D. Reicher, 2008Article
Eichmann: Is Evil So Banal - Antonio Cassese, 2009Article
Week Twelve (12 Dec) Tutorials
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