Record details

• ISBN: 9781598037272
• ISBN: 1598037277
• Physical Description: 6 audio discs (6 hr.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (vi, 162 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
• Publisher: Chantilly, Virginia : Great Courses, [2011]

Content descriptions

General Note:

At head of disc container title: The Great Courses; Topic: Religion & theology; Subtopic: Judeo-Christianity.

Compact discs.

Volume 3 of 3. Contains the lectures 25-36 of 36 lectures, 30 minutes per lecture.

Course no. 6810.

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Course guidebook includes biographical notes, lecture guides, timeline, glossary and bibliographical references.

Formatted Contents Note:

Disc 13. Lecture 25. Dostoevsky-- the demonic in modernity ; Lecture 26. Conrad-- incomprehensible terror -- Disc 14. Lecture 27. Freud-- the death drive and the inexplicable ; Lecture 28. Camus-- the challenge to take evil seriously -- Disc 15. Lecture 29. Post-WWII Protestant theology on evil ; Lecture 30. Post-WWII Roman Catholic theology on evil -- Disc 16. Lecture 31. Post-WWII Jewish thought on evil ; Lecture 32. Arendt-- the banality of evil -- Disc 17. Lecture 33. Life in truth-- 20th-century poets on evil ; Lecture 34. Science and the empirical study of evil -- Disc 18. Lecture 35. The "unnaming" of evil ; Lecture 36. Where can hope be found?

Participant or Performer Note:

Lectures presented by Professor Charles Mathewes, University of Virginia.

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Subject:

Good and evil > History.
Good and evil > Religious aspects.

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