Free Download The Apologetics of Evil: The Case of Iago (Princeton Monographs in Philosophy) by Richard Raatzsch, translated by Ladislaus Lob
English | July 26, 2009 | ISBN: 0691137331 | True EPUB | 128 pages | 2.4 MB
This book is a concise philosophical meditation on Iago and the nature of evil, through the exploration of the enduring puzzle found in Shakespeare’s Othello. What drives Iago to orchestrate Othello’s downfall? Instead of treating Iago’s lack of motive as the play’s greatest weakness, The Apologetics of Evil shows how this absence of motive is the play’s greatest strength. Richard Raatzsch determines that Iago does not seek a particular end or revenge for a discrete wrong; instead, Iago is governed by a passion for intriguing in itself. Raatzsch explains that this passion is a pathological version of ordinary human behavior and that Iago lacks the ability to acknowledge others; what matters most to him is the difference between himself and the rest of the world.