José Saramago e George Steiner. A antropologia do mal ou "o mal é"

In: Anthropos: internationale Zeitschrift für Völker- und Sprachenkunde : international review of anthropology and linguistics : revue internationale d'ethnologie et de linguistique, Band 116, Heft 2, S. 367-378

Abstract

In this article I address the problem of the definition, manifestations, characteristics, and causes of catastrophic evil (one that leads hundreds or thousands of people to exclusion, suffering and death in a short time). To this end, I start from a set of George Steiner's theses on the nature of evil that José Saramago's thought and literary discourse confirm and support with an eloquence and depth that is rare in both the history of ideas and and in universal literature.