The concept of hell
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The concept of hell
Palgrave Macmillan, 2015
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-231) and index
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What is the nature of Hell? What role(s) may Hell play in religious, political, or ethical thought? Can Hell be justified? This edited volume addresses these questions and others; drawing philosophers from many approaches and traditions to analyze and examine Hell.
Table of Contents
- Introduction Benjamin W. McCraw and Robert Arp PART I: THE NATURE OF HELL 1. Choosing Hell
- Randall M. Jensen 2. Hell is Others and Paradise is Others: Hell in the Existential Paris of Sartre and Berdyaev
- James M. McLachlan 3. A New Defense of the Strong View of Hell
- Andrew Rogers and Nathan Conroy 4. The Temporality of Damnation: Examining Linear and Non-Linear Responses to the Puzzle of Eternal Experience
- Frank Scalambrino PART II: JUSTIFYING HELL? 5. Hell and Punishment: Pitfalls for the Pit
- Galen A. Foresman 6. Leibniz's Stoic and Spinozistic Justification for Eternal Damnation
- Charles Joshua Horn 7. Morality and the Necessity of Hell
- James Edwin Mahon 8. Hell is For Children? Or The Violence of Inculcating Hell
- Jeffrey E. Stephenson and Jerry Piven PART III: HELL AND OTHERS 9. Damnation as Marginalization
- Nicolas Michaud 10. Whom We Resist: Subjectivity and Resistance at the Infernal Periphery
- Jonathon O'Donnell 11. Eternal Damnation as Exploitation's Last Defense: Marx, Religion, and the Concept of Hell
- Jeffrey Ewing 12. [All] Politics [are] From the Devil: Taking Agamben to Hell (and Back?)
- Kristof K. P. Vanhoutte
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