The Concept of Hell [electronic resource] /
Arp, Robert.editor.
McCraw, Benjamin.editor.
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.
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""Cover ""; ""Half-Title ""; ""Title ""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Notes on Contributors""; ""Introduction                   ""; ""Part I The Nature of Hell                                ""; ""1 Choosing Hell                      ""; ""2 Hell Is Others and Paradise Is Others: Hell in the Existential Paris of Sartre and Berdyaev                                                                                                    ""; ""3 A New Defense of the Strong View of Hell                                                 ""
""4 The Temporality of Damnation: Examining Linear and Non-Linear Responses to the Puzzle of Eternal Experience                                                                                                                    """"Part II Justifying Hell?                               ""; ""5 Hell as Punishment: Pitfalls for the Pit                                                 ""; ""6 Leibniz?s Stoic and Spinozistic Justification for Eternal Damnation                                                                            ""
""7 Kant, Morality, and Hell                                 """"8 Hell Is For Children? Or the Violence of Inculcating Hell                                                                  ""; ""Part III Hell and Others                               ""; ""9 Damnation as Marginalization                                     ""; ""10 Whom We Resist: Subjectivity and Resistance at the Infernal Periphery                                                                               ""
""11 Eternal Damnation as Exploitation?s Last Defense: Marx, Religion, and the Concept of Hell                                                                                                   """"12 (All) politics (Are) from the Devil: Taking Agamben to Hell (and Back?)                                                                                 ""; ""Bibliography                   ""; ""Index            ""
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Religion—Philosophy.
Religions.
Religion and sociology.
Ethics.
Epistemology.
Philosophy of Religion.
Comparative Religion.
Social Aspects of Religion.
Moral Philosophy.
Ethics.
Epistemology.