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.

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.

Introduction
Benjamin W. McCraw 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. McLachlan
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