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Radical Evil and the Scarcity of Hope Martin Beck Matustik

Radical Evil and the Scarcity of Hope By Martin Beck Matustik

Radical Evil and the Scarcity of Hope by Martin Beck Matustik


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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? This work considers evil to be even more radically evil than previously thought and to have become all too familiar in everyday life.

Radical Evil and the Scarcity of Hope Summary

Radical Evil and the Scarcity of Hope: Postsecular Meditations by Martin Beck Matustik

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.

Radical Evil and the Scarcity of Hope Reviews

This book deserves a large and thoughtful readership. . . . the insights are worth the effort.May 13, 2009 (online)

-- Robert L. Perkins * Stetson University *

In a world filled with war, torture, and cruelty, where millions of people die of diseases related to malnutrition or inadequate health care each year, Martin Beck Matustik's book is an important and innovative inquiry into an age-old problem.

-- Rabbi Michael Lerner * Tikkun *

About Martin Beck Matustik

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

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Part 1. Impossible Hope
1. Job at Auschwitz
2. Redemptive Critical Theory
3. Between Hope and Terror
Part 2. The Negatively Saturated Phenomenon
4. Job Questions Kant
5. Redemption in an Antiredemptory Age
6. Radical Evil as a Saturated Phenomenon
Part 3. The Uncanny
7. The Unforgivable
8. Tragic Beauty
9. The Unspeakable
10. Without a Why
Epilogue: Job Questions the Grand Inquisitor
Notes
Works Cited
Index

Additional information

NLS9780253219688
9780253219688
025321968X
Radical Evil and the Scarcity of Hope: Postsecular Meditations by Martin Beck Matustik
New
Paperback
Indiana University Press
2008-04-16
312
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