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