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The Devil's share;
Book • 1956
Denis de Rougemont's 'The Devil's Share' offers a cultural-theoretical perspective on evil and modern society that drew Hannah Arendt's critical attention.
Arendt accused the work of reviving a Manichaean worldview that divides the world into absolute good and evil, thereby encouraging metaphysical opportunism.
De Rougemont's writing engages with cultural and moral themes in mid-20th-century Europe, reflecting anxieties about modernity and moral choices.
Arendt's review used his book as a foil to develop her own political-philosophical approach to understanding evil in modern contexts.
The controversy illustrates mid-century debates over secular and theological vocabularies for moral condemnation.
Arendt accused the work of reviving a Manichaean worldview that divides the world into absolute good and evil, thereby encouraging metaphysical opportunism.
De Rougemont's writing engages with cultural and moral themes in mid-20th-century Europe, reflecting anxieties about modernity and moral choices.
Arendt's review used his book as a foil to develop her own political-philosophical approach to understanding evil in modern contexts.
The controversy illustrates mid-century debates over secular and theological vocabularies for moral condemnation.
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Mentioned by David Peña-Guzmán as the book Hannah Arendt reviewed and criticized for a Manichaean view of evil.
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