ENGLISH

Job and the Excess of Evil

By Emmanuel Levinas , Philippe Nemo , Michael Kigel

Book information

Publisher
Duquesne Univ Pr
Year
1998
ISBN
0820702854, 9780820702858
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
4 MB (4343879 bytes)
Pages
249\262
DPI
300
Orientation
portrait
Paginated
no
Scanned
yes
Time added
2016-05-25 17:09:00

Description

In this provocative work, Philippe Nemo measures the oldness of the problem of evil by a standard that exceeds the time of philosophy. He returns to the Old Testament, to the Book of Job. Why Job? In a way, just because it is not new. What Job teaches us, according to Nemo, is that evil cannot be harmonized with any sense of cosmic order, any world, any law, any Divinity, God remains unjustified, and evil unsanctified. Utterly senseless, evil exceeds the law of the world and shatters the order of things, as if this order, as if the world itself, were one big idol -- and by this cosmic iconoclasm reveals what is other than the world. And yet -- precisely by laying open the possibility of the Sacred bare and in ruins, precisely by virtue of its profanity -- evil opens up the way that is demarcated by the footsteps of the Saint.

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