Radical Evil and the Scarcity of Hope: Postsecular Meditations (Philosophy of Religion) - Softcover

Matuštík, Martin Beck

Softcover

ISBN 10: 025321968X ISBN 13: 9780253219688

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

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About the Author

Martin Beck Matuštík 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).

Edition details

• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 025321968X
• ISBN 13: 9780253219688
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 312