This book explores the transition of moral judgments—concerning good and evil—into the political realm. It comprises a collection of essays and notes on moral and political decision-making within contemporary Russian society, as well as on alternative foundations for living together. A central piece in the volume is a dialogical treatise on the nature of collective responsibility.

Mikhail Yuryevich Nemtsev (b. 1980) is a Russian philosopher, a researcher of ethics and social memory, and a public intellectual.