Hypatia articles from January 2003

Hypatia archives from January 2003

Introduction: Special Issue on "Feminist Philosophy and the Problem of Evil".(multiple analyses of evil in the world including a feminist perspective)(Editorial)
January 1, 2003... There is for human beings no greater hell to fear than the one on earth. Alice Walker, Possesing the Secret of Joy Toward the close of Alice Walker's novel, Possessing the Secret of Joy (1993), Adam realizes--after witnessing the...

Irigaray's to be two: The problem of evil and the plasticity of incarnation.
January 1, 2003... Any universal corresponding to a single gender or claiming to be neuter sins against spirit. And to sin against spirit is absolute. Everything else can be forgiven. Apart from that other infamy: destroying nature itself as the source of life...

Holes of oblivion: The banality of radical evil.(analysis of evil as seen in the writings of Hannah Arendt)(Kristeva's interpretations of evil and Arendt's theories)
January 1, 2003... Radical evil has emerged in connection with a system in which all men have become equally superfluous. The manipulators of this system believe in their own superfluousness as much as in that of all others and the totalitarian murderers are all...

Banal evil and useless knowledge: Hannah Arendt and Charlotte Delbo on evil after the Holocaust.
January 1, 2003... Three related divisions currently mark scholarship on evil. The first is the divide between studies of perpetrators and studies of victims. In the field of Holocaust studies, this division is a matter of principle for some scholars, who focus...

February 22, 2001: toward a politics of the vulnerable body.(war crimes tribunal precedent)(Bosnian Serb soldiers guilty of rape, now defined as crime against humanity)(issue of woman's humanity and sexual integrity considered)
January 1, 2003... 22 FEBRUARY 2001 On 22 February 2001, Marlise Simons of The New York Times reported that the U. N. Hague war crimes tribunal found three Bosnian soldiers guilty of crimes against humanity. Their offense? Rape. The court's ruling opens a...

Obscene undersides: women and evil between the Taliban and the United States.
January 1, 2003... What you engender in the mode of production will never be anything but the image of yourselves. Only what comes to pass in the mode of disappearance is truly other. Jean Baudrillard, The Perfect Crime A NOTE ON GOOD AND EVIL This...

Terrorism, evil, and everyday depravity. (Forum).
January 1, 2003... The most recent appropriation of the term "evil" by President George W. Bush's administration has caused me to hesitate in thinking about terrorism as "evil." The Bush administration has been deploying the term in conjunction with "axis" and...

Questions regarding a war on terrorism. (Forum).
January 1, 2003... Unlike some critics, I do not have great moral difficulty in identifying as terrorist and as evil the bombing attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. Regardless of perpetrators' grievances and their understandings of their...

Facing our humanity. (Forum).
January 1, 2003... Any praise for the ideal of humanity in its moral perfection can lose nothing in practical reality from examples to the contrary, drawn from what human beings now are, have become, or will presumably become in the future. --Immanuel Kant,...

Responding to the evil of terrorism. (Forum).
January 1, 2003... The dramatic attacks that occurred in the United States on September 11, 2001, have catalyzed a widespread though far from universal consensus that terrorism is utterly evil. (1) The claim that terrorism, like murder, is categorically wrong...

In and out of terror: The vertigo of secularization. (Forum).
January 1, 2003... The people who hurried to write something about September 11th were prone to make mistakes of judgment, mostly because the events of that day were difficult to comprehend. Six months have passed and the site of terror still haunts us. Those who...

Enduring freedom: globalizing children's rights. (Forum).
January 1, 2003... Jean Paul Sartre has said that hell is other people, referring to the other's freedom as the greatest threat to our own freedom (1976, 45). For Americans, the terrorist attacks on September 11, which turned lower Manhattan into a roaring...

Those who "witness the evil". (Forum).
January 1, 2003... We came into contact with absolute evil. --Canadian peacekeeper and witness of ethnic cleansing and other atrocities in the Croatian wars, The Vancouver Sun Native society is nor simply described as a society lacking in values. It is...

The moral horror of the September attacks. (Forum).
January 1, 2003... The attacks of September 11 caused, and could be expected to cause pain, injury, and death; terror and grief. The victims of the attacks had no distinctive relation to the attackers, no grounds for predicting attack, no means of protecting...

Feminist reactions to the contemporary security regime.
January 1, 2003... The American and European women's movement of the late 1970s and early 1980s contained a large segment organizing around issues of weapons, war and peace. By the early 1990s the humor and heroism of women's peace actions had been all but...

Books received.
January 1, 2003... Bartky, Lee Sandra. 2002. "Sympathy and solidarity" and other essays. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield. Bell, Richard, H. 2002. Understanding African philosophy: A cross-cultural approach to classical and contemporary issues. New York:...