The Fiction of Evil

Resumen del libro

What is evil personhood? Do evil people really exist? Can we make sense of evil people if we mythologize them? Do evil people take pleasure in the suffering of others? Peter Barry uses evil' characters from a wide range of renowned author's works, including the work of Kazuo Ishiguro, Mark Twain, Edgar Allan Poe and Oscar Wilde alongside the philosophical works of Nietzsche and Aristotle in order to examine whether evil is merely a fiction. The Fiction of Evil explores how the study of literature is important to the study of metaphysics and ethics and is essential reading for those studying the evil or philosophy of literature at undergraduate level.