Law and Evil: Philosophy, Politics, Psychoanalysis Book

Acknowledgement vii

List of contributors viii

1 Introduction Ari Hirvonen Janne Porttikivi 1

Part I Freedom 13

2 Eden/Shangri-la Angus Mcdonald 15

3 Tragedy and evil: from Hölderlin to Heidegger Francoise Dastur 31

4 Interrupting evil and the evil of interruption: revisiting the question of freedom Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback 41

5 Wickedness inscribed in freedom: Jean-Luc Nancy on evil Sami Santanen 57

6 Arche-evil: Derrida's philosophy explained through the concept of evil Jarl Kauppinen 73

Terror 95

7 Hell on earth: Hannah Arendt in the face of Hitler Jacob Rogozinski 97

8 Total evil: the law under totalitarianism Arl Hirvonen 117

9 The birth of terrorism out of the spirit of the Enlightenment: the subject of Enlightenment and the terrorist sensorium Artemy Magun 148

10 The catechism of the citizen: politics, law and religion in, after, with and against Rousseau Simon Critchley 169

Part III Desire 197

11 What's so funny about Infinite Justice? Janne Porttikivi 199

12 Moralization interrupted: on Lacan's thesis of 'the supreme good as radical evil' Marc De Kesel 224

13 When psychoanalysis meets Law and Evil: perversion and psychopathy in the forensic clinic Jochem Willemsen Paul Verhaeghe 237

14 'That which in life might prefer death . . . ': from the deathdrive to the desire of the analyst Veronique Voruz 260

Bibliography 286

Index 297