The History of Evil in the Early Twentieth Century ― 1900?950

The fifth volume of The History of Evil covers the Early Twentieth Century from 1900-1950. The chapters in this volume highlight efforts to comprehend human nature and evil in this period, through education, propaganda, power and oppression, and genocide. This volume also considers theological responses to evil, including the contribution to our understanding of evil made by theologians who focused on the idea of the death of God. Each chapter in this volume addresses thought about evil in terms of either a specific intellectual or political movements, or under thematic headings that are particularly salient to the first half of the twentieth century.

This outstanding treatment of the history of evil at its crucial and determinative inception will appeal to those with particular interests in the ideas of evil and good.

Victoria S. Harrison is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Macau, China.