Evil: A study of lost techniques

by Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh, Ayis Lertas (Illustrator)

This book explores evil as an infinitesimal complex of techniques – subtle inflections of possibility and obscure typologies of influence that bring together the rarest philosophies of oblivion, decadence, cruelty, derangement, ecstasy, atrocity, rage, and mystery alongside the most intricate poetic genres of the rant, the elegy, the riddle, the whisper, the threat, the question, silence, and the nocturne. Through a labyrinthine series of notes, diagrams, and outer limit speculations, this book attempts to uncover those concealed fragments which together form the architecture of another world altogether.

Genres: Philosophy

131 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 21, 2025

About the author

Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Babson College. He is the author or editor of The Chaotic Imagination: New Literature and Philosophy of the Middle East (2010), Inflictions: The Writing of Violence in the Middle East (2012), The Radical Unspoken: Silence in Middle Eastern and Western Thought (2013), and Insurgent, Poet, Mystic, Sectarian: The Four Masks of an Eastern Postmodernism (2015).

Reviews

[Christian · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fascinating, borgesian Taxonomy of Evil as a countercurrent to stability and order. Moves beyond christian retrictions by virtue of its granular detail and aims at a phenomenology below the broad strokes of culturally transmitted descriptions of evil.