基本信息出版社：Routledge
页码：256 页
出版日期：2001年09月
ISBN：0415253985
条形码：9780415253987
装帧：平装
正文语种：英语
丛书名：Routledge Classics
外文书名：邪恶

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To look into the darkness of the human soul is a frightening venture, yet here Mary Midgley does so with her customary brilliance and clarity - to read Wickedness is to understand her reputation as one of the great moral philosophers.
作者简介 Mary Midgley (1919-), a philosopher with a special interest in ethics, human nature and science, has a widespread international following for her work. Other publications include The Ethical Primate, Science as Salvation, Utopias, Dolphins and Computers and, most recently, Science and Poetry
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"...Midgley may be the most frightening philosopher in the country: ...before whom it is least pleasant to appear a fool." -- The Guardian

'Mary Midgely is a philosopher with what many have come to admire, and some to fear, as one of the sharpest critical pens in the West.' - Steven Rose, author of The Conscious Brain

I have now read the book twice, not because it is difficult (on the contrary it reads with the ease and elegance of Bertrand Russell), but because it is so stimulating. - Brian Masters, The Spectator

I have now read the book twice, not because it is difficult (on the contrary it reads with the ease and elegance of Bertrand Russell), but because it is so stimulating.
– The Spectator

Mary Midgely is a philosopher with what many have come to admire, and some to fear, as one of the sharpest critical pens in the West.
–Steven Rose, author of Theritical Conscious Brain

Mary Midgley may be the most frightening philosopher in the country: the one before whom it is least pleasant to appear a fool.
–The Guardian

Mrs Midgley has set out to delineate not so much the nature as the sources of wickedness. Though she calls the book a philosophical essay, it is more a contribution to psychology. The book is clearly written, with a refreshing absence of technical jargon, and each chapter is followed by a useful summary of its principal arguments.
–The Listener

The Routledge Classics, an intellectually compelling, and sometimes daunting, selection of important nonfiction originally published by the leftish Routledge or one of its imprints.[a] superb and welcome series.
–Martin Levin, Globe & Mail