Radical evil

Radical Evil, the second volume in the S series, marks the two-hundredth anniversary of the publication of Kant's Religion within the Limits of Reason Alone, where Kant first proposed, and quickly withdrew in horror, the concept of radical evil - an evil at the very heart of the ethical problematic. It also marks the recent publication in English of Lacan's Ethics of Psychoanalysis, arguably one of the most important and influential of Lacan's seminars, in which he discusses the rise since the nineteenth century of a certain 'happiness in evil'. The events of the twentieth century have made…