History of Evil in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

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.

• Editors and contributors. Series Introduction. Acknowledgments. Introduction, Douglas Hedley. 1. Berkeley on Evil, John Roberts. 2. Voltaire and the Philosophes, Dale Jacquette. 3. Jonathan Edwards, William J. Wainwright. 4. John Wesley on the Origins of Evil, Barry E. Bryant. 5. Hume, Charlotte R. Brown and William Edward Morris. 6. Immanuel Kant on Evil, Autonomy and Grace, Jeanine M. Grenberg. 7. The Deliverance of Evil: Utopia and Evil, Nicole Pohl. 8. Utilitarianism and Evil, Geoffrey Scarre. 9. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Paul Redding. 10. Evil in Schelling and Schopenhauer, Alistair Welchman. 11. Charles Darwin and the Problem of Evil, Michael Ruse. 12. Ludwig Feuerbach, Dan Yim. 13. Søren Kierkegaard, Anthony Rudd. 14. Evil in the Philosophy of Karl Marx, William L. McBride. 15. Dostoevsky, George Pattison. 16. Friedrich Nietzsche and the Genealogy of Evil, David Booth. 17. Is Colonialism Evil? David A. Hoekema. 18. Evil and the Nineteenth Century Idealists, Leslie Armour. 19. Positivism, Mike Gane, 20. Famine, Jonathan Healey. 21. Modern European Racism: Eighteenth Century Views of Race, Julie K. Ward. 22. Representations, Jil Evans and Charles Taliaferro.

"An outstanding and wide-ranging book which deserves to be read by anyone with a serious interest in the history of the concept of evil. The editors have gathered the best scholars in the field, the writing is crystal clear throughout, and we are given a fascinating tour of the relevant key thinkers and topics."Fiona Ellis, Heythrop College, University of London, UK