Out of Eden : : Adam and Eve and the Problem of Evil / / Paul W. Kahn.

In Out of Eden, Paul W. Kahn offers a philosophical meditation on the problem of evil. He uses the Genesis story of the Fall as the starting point for a profound articulation of the human condition. Kahn shows us that evil expresses the rage of a subject who knows both that he is an image of an infi...

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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2009]
©2006
Year of Publication:2009
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction:The Study of Evil
  • Chapter one: A Preliminary Meditation on Oedipus and Adam
  • Chapter two: Evil and the Image of the Sacred
  • Chapter three: Love and Evil
  • Chapter four: Political Evil: Slavery and the Shame of Nature
  • Chapter five: Political Evil: Killing, Sacrifice, and the Image of God
  • Conclusion: Tragedy, Comedy, And The Banality Of Evil
  • Index