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Informationen zum Autor 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). Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 ...
