Download or read book Evil and Givenness written by Brian W. Becker and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2022-03-15 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evil and Givenness describes a phenomenological situation exclusive to evil. The central concept in this work, the thanatonic, identifies that phenomenality proper to evil, arriving by a parasitic mode of givenness and manifesting itself through four figures: trauma, the evil eye, the foreign-body, and the abject.