Keyword

evil

Description: Evil is a moral and philosophical concept describing profound wrongdoing or harmfulness, and is examined in ethics, religion, and literature.

Primary topic: Theology and Philosophy of Evil (25%)

OpenAlex ID: keywords/evil

Ethics: an essay on the understanding of evil

2002 · Choice Reviews Online · 1,448

Seductions of crime: moral and sensual attractions in doing evil

1989 · Choice Reviews Online · 1,121

Seductions of Crime: Moral and Sensual Attractions in Doing Evil

1989 · Steven B. Katz, Jack Katz · The Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology (1973-) · 900

Collected Philosophical Papers

1987 · Emmanuel Levinas · Phaenomenologica · 829

Shamanism, Colonialism, and the Wild Man: A Study in Terror and Healing

2020 · Michael Taussig · Duke University Press eBooks · 722

Evil in modern thought: an alternative history of philosophy

2003 · Choice Reviews Online · 503

Evil: inside human violence and cruelty

1997 · Choice Reviews Online · 425

The symbolism of evil

1967 · Paul Ricœur, Emerson Buchanan · Medical Entomology and Zoology · 425

Appearance and reality: a metaphysical essay.

1899 · F. H. Bradley · 420

Human Nature and Conduct

2024 · Walter Moberly, Oliver de Selincourt · Routledge eBooks · 411

Collateral Damage: Social Inequalities in a Global Age

2011 · Zygmunt Bauman · 388

Creation and the persistence of evil: the Jewish drama of divine omnipotence

1989 · Choice Reviews Online · 386

Escape from Evil

1975 · Ernest Becker · Medical Entomology and Zoology · 383

Womanist Ethics and the Cultural Production of Evil

2006 · Emilie M. Townes · Palgrave Macmillan US eBooks · 330

A Common Humanity: Thinking about Love and Truth and Justice

2000 · Raimond Gaita · Research Portal (King's College London) · 318

Antichrist: two thousand years of the human fascination with evil

1995 · Choice Reviews Online · 303

Engaging the Powers: Discernment and Resistance in a World of Domination

1992 · Walter Wink · 265

The Intelligence of Evil or the Lucidity Pact

2005 · Jean Baudrillard, Chris Turner · 261

Brentano and Intrinsic Value.

1989 · James C. Klagge, Roderick M. Chisholm · The Philosophical Review · 261

Evil : inside human cruelty and violence

1997 · Roy F. Baumeister · W.H. Freeman eBooks · 255

Unpacking “evil”: Claiming the core of the Dark Triad

2014 · Angela Book, Beth A. Visser, et al. · Personality and Individual Differences · 253

Suspended Apocalypse: White Supremacy, Genocide, and the Filipino Condition

2011 · Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews · 246

Radical Evil: A Philosophical Interrogation

2002 · Richard J. Bernstein · Medical Entomology and Zoology · 233

Becoming Evil

2007 · 222

Deliver us from evil? Prospects for living ethically and acting politically in human geography

2002 · Paul Cloke · Progress in Human Geography · 222

Works count: 16,270

Citation count: 43,730