Table of Contents

• • Acknowledgments  
  • Introduction: Contemporary Perspectives    1
  • 1    Is God Evil?    17
  • 2    What's the Problem of Evil?    27
  • 3    "Radical Finitude" and the Problem of Evil: Critical Comments on Wellmer's Reading of Jonas    46
  • 4    Radical Evil: Kant at War with Himself    55
  • 5    Reflections on the Banality of (Radical) Evil: A Kantian Analysis    86
  • 6    The Polyhedron of Evil    101
  • 7    An Evil Heart: Moral Evil and Moral Identity    113
  • 8    Understanding Evil: Arendt and the Final Solution    131
  • 9    Toward a Sociology of Evil: Getting beyond Modernist Common Sense about the Alternative to "the Good"    153
  • 10    The Evil That Men Do: A Mediation on Radical Evil from a Postmetaphysical Point of View    173
  • 11    Major Offenders, Minor Offenders    189
  • 12    On Pain, the Suffering of Wrong, and Other Grievances: Responsibility    198
  • 13    Forgiveness and Oblivion: A New Form of Banality of Evil?    210
  • 14    "Happy Endings" / Unendings: Narratives of Evil    225
  • 15    Narrating Evil: A Postmetaphysical Theory of Reflective Judgment    239
  • Notes    251
  • List of Contributors    295
  • Index    299