The Concept of Hell

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Introduction....Pages 1-11
Front Matter....Pages 13-13
Choosing Hell....Pages 15-31
Hell Is Others and Paradise Is Others: Hell in the Existential Paris of Sartre and Berdyaev....Pages 32-48
A New Defense of the Strong View of Hell....Pages 49-65
The Temporality of Damnation: Examining Linear and Non-Linear Responses to the Puzzle of Eternal Experience....Pages 66-80
Front Matter....Pages 81-81
Hell as Punishment: Pitfalls for the Pit....Pages 83-98
Leibniz’s Stoic and Spinozistic Justification for Eternal Damnation....Pages 99-112
Kant, Morality, and Hell....Pages 113-126
Hell Is For Children? Or The Violence of Inculcating Hell....Pages 127-145
Front Matter....Pages 147-147
Damnation as Marginalization....Pages 149-168
Whom We Resist: Subjectivity and Resistance at the Infernal Periphery....Pages 169-183
Eternal Damnation as Exploitation’s Last Defense: Marx, Religion, and the Concept of Hell....Pages 184-207
(All) politics (Are) from the Devil: Taking Agamben to Hell (and Back?)....Pages 208-222
Back Matter....Pages 223-238