Kant's Anatomy of Evil

Sharon Anderson-Gold is Professor and Chair at the Department of Science and Technology Studies in the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Her previous publications include Cosmopolitanism and Human Rights (2001) and Unnecessary Evil: History and Moral Progress in the Philosophy of Immanuel Kant (2001) which was nominated for the North American Society for Social Philosophy Book Prize. Pablo Mucknik is an Assistant Professor in the Philosophy Department at Siena College, Loudonville. He is the editor of Rethinking Kant: Volume 1 (2008).

• Introduction; 1. Kant's 'Metaphysics of Permanent Rupture': radical evil and the unity of reason Philip Rossi; 2. Kantian moral pessimism Patrick Frierson; 3. Kant, the Bible, and the recovery from radical evil Gordon Michalson; 4. Kant's moral excluded middle Claudia Card; 5. Evil everywhere: the ordinariness of Kantian radical evil Robert Louden; 6. An alternative proof of the universal propensity to evil Pablo Muchnik; 7. Kant and the intelligibility of evil Allen Wood; 8. Social dimensions of Immanuel Kant's 'Conception of Radical Evil' Jeanine Grenberg; 9. Kant, radical evil, and crimes against humanity Sharon Anderson-Gold; 10. Revolution and reconciliation: toward a Kantian account David Sussman.

"... Kant's Anatomy of Evil resoundingly succeeds in showing the depth of Kant's resources for dealing with the problem of moral evil. Anyone with a professional interest in Kant's practical philosophy should read it." --Robert Gressis, California State University, Northridge, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews