Otherness and the problem of evil: How does that which is other become evil?

Abstract

In seeking to answer the question How does that which is other become evil? the author provides a discussion of four entwined aspects of the issue at stake: (1) difficulty in achieving clarity on the grammar of evil; (2) genocide as a striking illustration of otherness becoming evil; (3) the challenge of postnationalism as a resource for dealing with otherness in the socio-political arena; and (4) the ethico-religious dimension as it relates to the wider problem of evil. © 2007 Springer.