Out of Eden
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A Theory of Justice
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Christianity
Civilization and Its Discontents
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Creationism
Crime
Decolonization
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Evil
Explanation
False god
Flight from Death
God
Good and evil
Hannah Arendt
Hatred
Homo sacer
Hypocrisy
Ideology
Idolatry
Image of God
Immanuel Kant
Injunction
Irrationality
Irreligion
Jews
Judeo-Christian
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Liberalism
Martyr
Modernity
Moral absolutism
Morality
Narrative
Nazism
Nihilism
Nudity
Objectification
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Phenomenon
Philosopher
Philosophy
Political philosophy
Political psychology
Politics
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Principle
Problem of evil
Protestantism
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Radical evil
Rationality
Reason
Regicide
Religion
Self-knowledge (psychology)
Self-transcendence
Shame
Slavery
Social constructionism
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Sovereignty
Subjectivity
Suffering
The Philosopher
Theodicy
Theology
Theory
Thought
Torture
Totem and Taboo
Veil of ignorance
Warfare
Western religions
Wickedness
Product details
- ISBN 9780691148120
- Weight: 369g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 05 Sep 2010
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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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 infinite God and that he must die. Kahn's interpretation of Genesis leads him to inquiries into a variety of modern forms of evil, including slavery, torture, and genocide. Kahn takes issue with Hannah Arendt's theory of the banality of evil, arguing that her view is an instance of the modern world's lost capacity to speak of evil. Psychological, social, and political accounts do not explain evil as much as explain it away. Focusing on the existential roots of evil rather than on the occasions for its appearance, Kahn argues that evil originates in man's flight from death. He urges us to see that the opposite of evil is not good, but love: while evil would master death, love would transcend it. Offering a unique perspective that combines political and cultural theory, law, and philosophy, Kahn here continues his project of advancing a political theology of modernity.
Paul W. Kahn is the Robert W. Winner Professor of Law and the Humanities at Yale Law School and director of the Orville H. Schell, Jr., Center for International Human Rights at Yale University. His books include "Putting Liberalism in Its Place" (Princeton), "Law and Love", "The Cultural Study of Law", "The Reign of Law", and "Legitimacy and History".
