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Book Title
The Order of Evils: Toward an Ontology of Morals
Publication Name
The Order of Evils
Title
The Order of Evils
Subtitle
Toward an Ontology of Morals
Author
Adi Ophir
Translator
Havi Carel
Contributor
Havi Carel (Translated by)
Format
Hardcover
Type
Hardback
ISBN-10
189095151X
EAN
9781890951511
ISBN
9781890951511
Publisher
Zone Books
Genre
Philosophy & Spirituality
Release Year
2005
Release Date
08/10/2005
Language
English
Country/Region of Manufacture
US
Item Height
229mm
Item Length
152mm
Item Width
152mm
Item Weight
1089g
Series
Zone Books
Publication Year
2005
Topic
Popular Philosophy
Number of Pages
704 Pages

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What remains of moral judgement when truth itself is mistrusted, when the validity of every belief system depends on its context, when power and knowledge are inextricably entangled? Is a viable moral theory still possible in the wake of the postmodern criticism of modern philosophy? The Order of Evil responds directly to these questions and dilemmas with one simple and brilliant change of focus. Rather than concentrating on the age-old themes of justice and freedom, Adi Ophir offers a moral theory that emphasises the existential and political nature of evil. Ophir's main contention is that evil is neither a diabolical element residing in the hearts of men nor a meaningless absence of the good. Rather, it is the socially structured order of superfluous evils. Evils, like pain, suffering, loss, and humiliation, are superfluous when they could have been - but were not - prevented. Through close analysis of seminal works by modern and postmodern philosophers - from Rousseau, Kant, Marx, Sartre and Arendt to Foucault, Levinas, Derrida and Lyotard - Ophir forges a new perspective for thinking about what it means to be a moral being: to be moral, he argues, is to care for others, and to be committed to preventing, at all costs, their suffering and distress. A theoretically sophisticated work, The Order of Evils also bears the traces of Ophir's own political and personal experiences as an Israeli philosopher and activist. Two major events in recent Jewish history have profoundly influenced his thinking: the Holocaust and the prolonged Israeli domination of Palestinians in the Occupied Territories. Ophir does not compare the two events. Instead, he introduces a typology of disasters that allows them to be located within the wide spectrum of humanly generated calamities whose specificity and general patterns emerge clearly and distinctly as what they are and are not.

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Book Title
The Order of Evils: Toward an Ontology of Morals
Author
Adi Ophir
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Popular Philosophy
Publication Year
2005
Number of Pages
704 Pages

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229mm
Item Width
152mm
Item Weight
1089g

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Adi Ophir
Series Title
Zone Books
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United States

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