Idea of Evil

PETER DEWS is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Essex. He has published widely on 19th and 20th century European thought, with a focus on German Idealism, the Frankfurt School, and recent French philosophy. He is the author of Logics of Disintegration (1987, reissued 2006), and The Limits of Disenchantment (1995). He has also edited and introduced two books on the work of Jürgen Habermas: Autonomy and Solidarity: Interviews with Jürgen Habermas (1986) and Habermas: A Critical Reader (Blackwell, 1999).

• List of Abbreviations viPreface viiiIntroduction 11 Kant: The Perversion of Freedom 172 Fichte and Schelling: Entangled in Nature 463 Hegel: A Wry Theodicy 814 Schopenhauer and Nietzsche: Suffering from Meaninglessness 1185 Levinas: Ethics à l’Outrance 1586 Adorno: Radical Evil as a Category of the Social 187Conclusion 212Bibliography 235Index 246

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