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A scene from the 1922 German horror film ‘Nosferatu’, based on Bram Stoker’s ‘Dracula’
On Evil, by Terry Eagleton, Yale University Press RRP£18.99, 192 pages
A Philosophy of Evil, by Lars Svendsen, Dalkey Archive Press RRP£11.99, 312 pages
Memory as a Remedy for Evil, by Tzvetan Todorov, Seagull Books RRP£10.50, 92 pages
Evil and the God of Love, by John Hick, Palgrave Macmillan RRP£19.99, 416 pages
The idea of evil, remarks Norwegian philosopher Lars Svendsen, has in recent decades been seen as “a holdover from a mythical, Christian worldview whose time had already passed”. But the fact that Svendsen’s A Philosophy of Evil is being published within weeks of literary critic Terry Eagleton’s On Evil and philosopher Tzvetan Todorov’s Memory as a Remedy for Evil suggests that the secular world is not quite ready to dispense with the concept of evil just yet. At the same time, a new reissue of theologian John Hick’s 1966 classic Evil and the God of Love shows there’s still life in the Christian perspective too.
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