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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811823803321

Autore

Matustik Martin Joseph <1957->

Titolo

Radical evil and the scarcity of hope : postsecular meditations / / Martin Beck Matustik

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2008

ISBN

9786611726485

1-281-72648-6

0-253-00021-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (313 p.)

Collana

Indiana series in the philosophy of religion

Disciplina

170

Soggetti

Good and evil

Hope

Good and evil - Religious aspects

Hope - Religious aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-282) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

Opens a way for hope, forgiveness, redemption, and love to spring from evil