Bruce Haddock is Professor of European Social and Political Thought at Cardiff University. He has published numerous books and articles, most recently A History of Political Thought: From Antiquity to the Present (2005). Peri Roberts is Senior Lecturer in the School of European Studies at Cardiff University. Peter David Edward Sutch is Reader in Political and International Theory at Cardiff University, where he teaches classes in political theory, global ethics and the politics of international law.

• Notes on the Contributors; 1. Introduction, Bruce Haddock, Peri Roberts, Peter Sutch; 2. Darkness and Silence: Evil in the Western Legacy, John Milbank; 3. Constructivism and Evil, Peri Roberts; 4. Systemic Evil and the Limits of Pluralism, Bruce Haddock; 5. Unreasonable or Evil?, Kerstin Budde; 6. Evil in Contemporary International Political Theory: Acts that Shock the Conscience of Mankind, Peter Sutch; 7. Doing Evil Justly? The Morality of Justifiable Abomination, Mark Evans; 8. Evil and the Left, Eve Garrard; 9. The Glamour of Evil: Dostoyesvsky and the Politics of Transgression, John Horton; 10. The Rhetoric of Moral Equivalence, Richard Shorten; 11. Banal but not Benign: Arendt on Evil, David Boucher; Index.