Piety and rebellion / Demetrio Paparoni -- Perfection and perdition / Gianni Mercurio -- Sanctity and depravity / Roger Caillois -- The flesh in sacrifice and in love / Georges Bataille -- The eroticism or divinity of evil versus the God of good / Georges Bataille -- The question of the sacred / Julie Ries -- The fall of Satan / Pierre Riches -- The concept of the body in Judaism / Arturo Schwarz -- Who is the serpent? / Vito Mancuso -- Dangerous art / Arthur C. Danto -- On the necessity of evil and Hell / Jean Baudrillard -- The devil’s side / Michel Maffesoli -- Pornography / Gore Vidal.