MaliceVerso, 2003 - 192 pages Malice is one of the most primal human impulses but is often not examined because of the human desire to keep evil at bay. Flahault takes evil out of the realms of theology, instead considering malice as an anthropological fact, intrinsic to human nature. |
Contents
The Price of Monotheism | 16 |
The Spectre of Absolute Evil | 34 |
Victor Frankensteins Excess | 53 |
Pity for the Monster | 74 |
Thought and Reason versus Literature and Passion | 89 |
Good Feeling | 108 |
Emancipatory Ideal | 138 |
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Aeschylus affirmation Augustinian bad infinite become Book of Job bound boundless Burke Caleb Williams Chaos character Christian coexistence conception confrontation constitutes desire destruction discourse dream Enlightenment thought Evangelium vitae evil example existence experience fact Falkland fantasy feeling fiction Filka film fount of limitlessness Frankenstein's creature Gallimard give Godwin Gothic novel hatred human Ibid ideal of emancipation ideas infinitude infinity inner springs justice kind little mermaid Mary Shelley means Milton monotheism monster moral narration narrative nature novel omnipotence one's oneself original original sin ourselves Paradise Lost Paris passion person philosophy Pierre Rivière pity pleasure political Primo Levi Prometheus question reader reality rejected relation relationship Rousseau Sade Samson Satan scenario scène de ménage sense Shelley's social society someone soul springs of malice story sublime tension terror thereby things thinking tion trans transgression victim Victor Frankenstein violence wickedness William Godwin Yahweh young