Power, love and evil : contribution to a philosophy of the damaged /

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Author / Creator:Cristaudo, Wayne.
Imprint:Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2008.
Description:1 online resource (1 volume)
Language:English
Series:At the interface/probing the boundaries ; v. 42
At the interface/probing the boundaries ; v. 42.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11157570
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ISBN:9781435614529
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9789401205382
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9042023384
9789042023383
9042023384
9789042023383
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Summary:Love and evil are real - they are substances of force fields which contain us as constituent parts. Of all the powers of life they are the two most pregnant with meaning, hence the most generative of what is specifically human. Love and evil stand in the closest relationship to each other: evil is both what destroys love and what forces more love out of us; it is, as Augustine astutely grasped, privative (requiring something to negate) but it is also born out of misdirected love. Breaking with naìˆve realist and post-modern dogmas about the nature of the real, this book provides the basis for a.
Other form:Print version: Cristaudo, Wayne. Power, love and evil. Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2008 9789042023383