Job and the Excess of Evil

By Philippe Nemo
postface by Emmanuel Levinas
translated by Michael Kigel

210 pages/ Includes Index / $45.00 Cloth
ISBN 0-8207-0285-4

210 pages / Includes Index / $18.95x Paper
ISBN 0-8207-0286-2

Book Information

In this seminal and provocative work, Nemo returns to the Old Testament and the Book of Job to examine a variety of themes, including personal suffering, the problem of evil and the phenomenology of anxiety. A book filled with biblical insights and remarkable conclusions.

Author Information

PHILIPPE NEMO is a professor at the ƒcole SupŽrieure de Commerce de Paris, where he teaches philosophy and the history of political ideas. He is the author of Le Chaos Pedagogique and L'Homme Structural.

EMMANUEL LEVINAS, a major voice of the twentieth century European thought, died in late 1995. His works inlcude Ethics and Infinity, Totality and Infinity and Time and the Other.

MICHAEL KIGEL holds a postdoctoral fellowship in philosophy and religious studies at the University of Toronto.

Reviews

"It is really difficult to critique Philippe Nemo's book, because it contains so many deep perspectives and ideas, and it is filled with biblical inspiration. The [final] chapters on the Intention and the Difference, and the remarkable conclusion about beatitude join the Christian tradition of great theological literature."

- GHISLAIN LAFFONT, NOUVELLE REVUE THEOLOGIQUE