Descript |
xx, 358 p. ; 24 cm. |
Contents |
FIRE FROM HEAVEN -- God's advocates : Leibniz and Pope -- Newton of the mind : Jean-Jacques Rousseau -- Divided wisdom : Immanuel Kant -- real and rational : Hegel and Marx -- In conclusion -- CONDEMNING THE ARCHITECT -- Raw material : Bayle's Dictionary -- Voltaire's Destinies -- The impotence of reason : David Hume -- End of the tunnel : the Marquis de Sade -- Schopenhauer : the world as tribunal -- ENDS OF AN ILLUSION -- Eternal choices : Nietzsche on redemption -- On consolation : Freud vs. providence -- HOMELESS -- Earthquakes : why Lisbon? -- Mass murders : why Auschwitz? -- Losses : ending modern theodicies -- Intentions : meaning and malice -- Terror : after September 11 -- Remains : Camus, Arendt, critical theory, Rawls -- Origins : sufficient reason. |
ISBN |
9780691117928 |
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0691117926 |
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