Archive for the ‘Evil’ Category

January 15, 2010 2

Haiti, and Adorno on Solidarity

By Robert Minto in Depreciations, Evil, Suffering

The evil response of certain evangelicals to the tragedy of Haiti came vividly to mind as I read the opening pages of Adorno’s Minima Moralia this evening. In particular, the comments of Pat Robertson that the Haitians are somehow reaping divine vengeance for a pact with the devil in their history — struck me as [...]

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September 5, 2009 0

Joseph Conrad vs. The Powers and Principalities

By Robert Minto in Books, Evil

The Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad is unquestionably disturbing. Not so much because of the surprise ending (if you can call it that) but because throughout the whole book we are like the anonymous second-hand narrator, who describes his emotions this way during a break in Marlowe’s narrative: “I listened, I listened on the [...]

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