Douglas Hedley - The History of Evil in the 18th and 19th Centuries: 1700-1900

This fourth volume of The History of Evil explores the key thinkers and themes relating to the question of evil in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The very idea of evil is highly contentious in modern thought and this period was one in which the concept was intensely debated and criticized. The persistence of the idea of evil is a testament to the abiding significance of theology in the period, not least in Germany. Comprising twenty-two chapters by international scholars, some of the topics explored include: Berkeley on evil, Voltaire and the Philosophes, John Wesley on the origins of evil, Immanuel Kant on evil, autonomy, and grace, the deliverance of evil: utopia and evil, utilitarianism and evil, evil in Schelling and Schopenhauer, Friedrich Nietzsche and the genealogy of evil, and evil and the nineteenth century idealists.

This volume also explores a number of other key thinkers and topics within the period. This outstanding treatment of the history of evil at the crucial and determinative inception of its key concepts will appeal to those with particular interests in the ideas of evil and good.

Douglas Hedley is Professor of the Philosophy of Religion at the University of Cambridge, UK.

Chad Meister is Professor of Philosophy and Theology at Bethel College, USA.

Charles Taliaferro is Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at St. Olaf College, USA.

Series Editors: Chad Meister and Charles Taliaferro

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Edited by Douglas Hedley, Chad Meister, and Charles Taliaferro
Series editors: Chad Meister and Charles Taliaferro

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Names: Angier, Tom P. S., editor.

Title: The history of evil / edited by Tom Angier, Chad Meister, and Charles Taliaferro.

Description: 1 [edition]. | New York : Routledge-Taylor & Francis, 2016. | Includes index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2015048701 | ISBN 9781138642300 (v. 1 : hbk)

Subjects: LCSH: Good and evilHistory.

Classification: LCC BJ1401 .H57 2016 | DDC 170.9dc23

LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015048701

ISBN: 978-1-138-23716-2 (Set, hbk)

ISBN: 978-1-138-64230-0 (Vol I, hbk)

ISBN: 978-1-315-63005-2 (Vol I, ebk)

ISBN: 978-1-138-23680-6 (Vol II, hbk)

ISBN: 978-1-351-13852-9 (Vol II, ebk)

ISBN: 978-1-138-23682-0 (Vol III, hbk)

ISBN: 978-1-351-13848-2 (Vol III, ebk)

ISBN: 978-1-138-23683-7 (Vol IV, hbk)

ISBN: 978-1-351-13840-6 (Vol, IV, ebk)

ISBN: 978-1-138-23684-4 (Vol V, hbk)

ISBN: 978-1-351-13836-9 (Vol V, ebk)

ISBN: 978-1-138-23687-5 (Vol VI, hbk)

ISBN: 978-1-351-13960-1 (Vol VI, ebk)

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