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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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: the study of evil
- A preliminary meditation on Oedipus and Adam
- Evil and the image of the sacred
- Love and evil
- Political evil: slavery and the shame of nature
- Political evil: killing, sacrifice, and the image of god
- Conclusion: tragedy, comedy, and the banality of evil.