Radical evil a philosophical interrogation at present there is an enormous gulf between the visibility of evil and the paucity of our intellectual resources for coming to grips with it we have been flooded with images of death camps terrorist attacks and horrendous human suffering. Radical evil a philosophical interrogation by richard bernstein polity press 2002 304 pp jean bethke elshtain let me get a gripe out of the way before i begin to review seriously this work by a distinguished contemporary philosopher notice the sub title an interrogation is. This item radical evil a philosophical interrogation by richard j bernstein paperback 2891 available to ship in 1 2 days ships from and sold by amazoncom. Bernstein seeks to discover what we can learn about the meaning of evil and human responsibility he turns to philosophers such as kant who coined the expression radical evil as well as to hegel and schelling he also examines more recent explorations of evil namely the thinking of freud and nietzsche on the moral psychology of evil