1 Introduction 1
PARTⅠFreedom 13
2 Eden/Shangri-la 15
3 Tragedy and evil: from Holderlin to Heidegger 31
4 Interrupting evil and the evil of interruption: revisiting the question of freedom&MARCIA SA CAVALCANTE SCHUBACK 41
5 Wickedness inscribed in freedom: Jean-Luc Nancy on evil 57
6 Arche-evil: Derrida's philosophy explained through the concept of evil&JARI KAUPPINEN 73
PARTⅡ Terror 95
7 Hell on earth: Hannah Arendt in the face of Hitler&JACOB ROGOZINSKI 97
8 Total evil: the law under totalitarianism&ARI HIRVONEN 117
9 The birth of terrorism out of the spirit of the Enlightenment: the subject of Enlightenment and the terrorist sensorium 148
10 The catechism of the citizen: politics, law and religion in, after, with and against Rousseau&SIMON CRITCHLEY 169
PARTⅢ 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 234
13 When psychoanalysis meets Law and Evil: perversion and psychopathy in the forensic clinic&JOCHEM WILLEMSEN AND PAUL VERHAEGHE 237
14 That which in life might prefer death ...': from the death drive to the desire of the analyst&VERONIQUE VORUZ 260
Bibliography 286
Index 297