Martin Beck Matuštík is Lincoln Professor of Ethics and Religion at Arizona State University. He is author of Jürgen Habermas: Philosophical-Political Profile and Specters of Liberation. He has edited (with Merold Westphal) Kierkegaard in Post/Modernity (IUP, 1995).

"In a world filled with war, torture, and cruelty, where millions of people die of diseases related to malnutrition or inadequate health care each year, Martin Beck Matuštík's book is an important and innovative inquiry into an age-old problem."—Rabbi Michael Lerner, Tikkun"This book deserves a large and thoughtful readership. . . . the insights are worth the effort.May 13, 2009 (online)"—Robert L. Perkins, Stetson University

• AcknowledgmentsPart 1. Impossible Hope1. Job at Auschwitz2. Redemptive Critical Theory3. Between Hope and TerrorPart 2. The Negatively Saturated Phenomenon4. Job Questions Kant5. Redemption in an Antiredemptory Age6. Radical Evil as a Saturated PhenomenonPart 3. The Uncanny7. The Unforgivable8. Tragic Beauty9. The Unspeakable10. Without a WhyEpilogue: Job Questions the Grand InquisitorNotesWorks CitedIndex

Martin Beck Matuštík is Lincoln Professor of Ethics and Religion at Arizona State University. He is author of Jürgen Habermas: Philosophical-Political Profile and Specters of Liberation. He has edited (with Merold Westphal) Kierkegaard in Post/Modernity (IUP, 1995).

"In a world filled with war, torture, and cruelty, where millions of people die of diseases related to malnutrition or inadequate health care each year, Martin Beck Matuštík's book is an important and innovative inquiry into an age-old problem."—Rabbi Michael Lerner, Tikkun"This book deserves a large and thoughtful readership. . . . the insights are worth the effort.May 13, 2009 (online)"—Robert L. Perkins, Stetson University

• AcknowledgmentsPart 1. Impossible Hope1. Job at Auschwitz2. Redemptive Critical Theory3. Between Hope and TerrorPart 2. The Negatively Saturated Phenomenon4. Job Questions Kant5. Redemption in an Antiredemptory Age6. Radical Evil as a Saturated PhenomenonPart 3. The Uncanny7. The Unforgivable8. Tragic Beauty9. The Unspeakable10. Without a WhyEpilogue: Job Questions the Grand InquisitorNotesWorks CitedIndex