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Radical evil and the scarcity of hope : postsecular meditations
- Title
- Radical evil and the scarcity of hope : postsecular meditations / Martin Beck Matuštík.
- Author
- Matuštík, Martin Beck, 1957-
- Publication
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2008.
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Details
- Description
- xii, 295 pages; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "No one will deny that we live in a world where evil exists. But how are we to come to grips with human atrocity and its diabolical intensity? Martin Beck Matustik considers evil to be even more radically evil than previously thought and to have become all too familiar in everyday life. While we can name various moral wrongs and specific cruelties, Matustik maintains that radical evil understood as a religious phenomenon requires a religious response where the language of hope, forgiveness, redemption, and love can take us beyond unspeakable harm and irreparable violence. Drawing upon the work of Kant, Schelling, Kierkegaard, Levinas, Derrida, and Marion, this work is written as a series of meditations. Matustik presents a bold new way of dealing with one of humanity's most intractable problems."--Book cover.
- Series Statement
- Indiana series in the philosophy of religion
- Uniform Title
- Indiana series in the philosophy of religion
- Subject
- Good and evil
- Hope
- Good and evil > Religious aspects
- Hope > Religious aspects
- Good and evil
- Good and evil > Religious aspects
- Hope
- Hope > Religious aspects
- Hoffnung
- Religionsphilosophie
- Philosophie
- Das Böse
- <<Das>> Böse
- Hoffnung
- Religionsphilosophie
- Ondska > religiösa aspekter > kristendom
- Hopp (känsla) > religiösa aspekter > kristendom
- Das @Böse
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-282) and index.
- Contents
- Impossible hope -- Job at Auschwitz -- Redemptive critical theory -- Between hope and terror -- The negatively saturated phenomenon -- Job questions Kant -- Redemption in an antiredemptory age -- Radical evil as a saturated phenomenon -- The uncanny -- The unforgivable -- Tragic beauty -- The unspeakable -- Without a why -- Epilogue : Job questions the Grand Inquisitor.
- ISBN
- 9780253351043
- 0253351049
- 9780253219688
- 025321968X
- LCCN
- 2007035573
- OCLC
- ocn167513985
- 167513985
- SCSB-1471062
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library