Radical Evil and the Scarcity of Hope: Postsecular Meditations - Couverture souple

Matuštík, Martin Beck

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 025321968X ISBN 13 : 9780253219688

Editeur : Indiana University Press, 2008

Synopsis

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 Matustík 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, Matustík 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. Matustík presents a bold new way of dealing with one of humanity's most intractable problems.

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À propos de l?auteur

Martin Beck Matustík is Lincoln Professor of Ethics and Religion at Arizona State University. He is author of Jürgen Habermas: Philosophical-Political Profile and Specters of Liberation. He has edited (with Merold Westphal) Kierkegaard in Post/Modernity (IUP, 1995).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Indiana University Press
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 025321968X
• ISBN 13: 9780253219688
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 312
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