Robert Arp & Benjamin McCraw 
The Concept of Hell 

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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Introduction

Benjamin W. Mc Craw and Robert Arp

PART I: THE NATURE OF HELL

1. Choosing Hell; Randall M. Jensen

2. Hell is Others and Paradise is Others: Hell in the Existential Paris of Sartre and Berdyaev; James M. Mc Lachlan

3. A New Defense of the Strong View of Hell; Andrew Rogers and Nathan Conroy

4. The Temporality of Damnation: Examining Linear and Non-Linear Responses to the Puzzle of Eternal Experience; Frank Scalambrino

PART II: JUSTIFYING HELL?

5. Hell and Punishment: Pitfalls for the Pit; Galen A. Foresman

6. Leibniz’s Stoic and Spinozistic Justification for Eternal Damnation; Charles Joshua Horn

7. Morality and the Necessity of Hell; James Edwin Mahon

8. Hell is For Children? Or The Violence of Inculcating Hell; Jeffrey E. Stephenson and Jerry Piven

PART III: HELL AND OTHERS

9. Damnation as Marginalization; Nicolas Michaud

10. Whom We Resist: Subjectivity and Resistance at the Infernal Periphery; Jonathon O’Donnell

11. Eternal Damnation as Exploitation’s Last Defense: Marx, Religion, and the Concept of Hell; Jeffrey Ewing

12. [All] Politics [are] From the Devil: Taking Agamben to Hell (and Back?); Kristof K. P. Vanhoutte

O autorze

Robert Arp, University of Missouri-Kansas City, US. Nathan Conroy, Texas Tech University, US. Jeffrey Ewing, University of Oregon, US. Galen Foresman, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, US. Charles Joshua Horn, University of Wisconsin, US. Randall M. Jensen, Northwestern College, US. James Edwin Mahon, Washington and Lee University, US. Benjamin W. Mc Craw, University of South Carolina, US. James M. Mc Lachlan, Western Carolina University, US. Nicolas Michaud, Florida State College, US. Jonathon O’Donnell, SOAS, University of London, UK. Jerry S. Piven, Independent Scholar Andrew Rogers, Texas Tech University, US. Frank Scalambrino, University of Dallas, US. Jeffrey E. Stephenson, Montana State University, US. Kristof K.P. Vanhoutte, Pontifical University Antonianum, Italy.