The Concept of Hell

The Concept of Hell examines a wide range of topics, problems, and concepts of interest to philosophers, theologians, and anyone curious about religious thinking concerning damnation. Acting as a platform for philosophers from many different views and traditions, this book provides a myriad of approaches to thinking about Hell. From the nature of Hell to philosophical justifications of damnation, to the way in which Hell informs us about our relationships with each other, the discussions offer a tantalizing exploration of how philosophical thinking can engage Hell in a wide variety of ways from many different perspectives. Anyone with a desire to think about what happens after we die, damnation, and related religious and theological issues will find The Concept of Hell interesting and enlightening.

Robert Arp is Instructor of Philosophy at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA. He works in metaphysics and philosophy of religion.

Benjamin W. McCraw is Instructor of Philosophy at the University of South Carolina, USA. He works in epistemology and philosophy of religion, with recent papers in Social Epistemology and the International Journal for Philosophy of Religion.

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