The New Demons: Rethinking Power and Evil Today

The Italian philosopher and author of Totalitarianism "rescues the concept of evil as an element necessary for guidance in political reflection" (Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review).

As long as we care about suffering in the world, says political philosopher Simona Forti, we are compelled to inquire into the question of evil. But is the concept of evil still useful in a postmodern landscape where absolute values have been leveled and relativized by a historicist perspective? Given ou...