Evil and Givenness describes a phenomenological situation exclusive to evil. The central concept in this work, the thanatonic, identifies that phenomenality proper to evil, arriving by a parasitic mode of givenness and manifesting itself through four figures: trauma, the evil eye, the foreign-body, and the abject.

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Problem of the Problem of Evil

Part I: Modes of Givenness

Chapter 1: "They Shall Know Them by Their Fruits": A Phenomenology of Givenness

Chapter 2: Parasitic Givenness

Part II: The Four Horsemen of the Thanatonic

Chapter 3: Lost Time: The Event of Trauma

Chapter 4: The Evil Eye

Chapter 5: "It is No Longer I Who Do it": The Foreign-body

Chapter 6: "Surely it is Not I": The Abject

Part III: Amputation of the Possible

Chapter 7: Being Diminished: The Thanatonic Ego

Conclusion

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Notes

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