TY - BOOK ID - 14228398 TI - Kantian Antitheodicy : Philosophical and Literary Varieties AU - Pihlström, Sami. AU - Kivistö, Sari. PY - 2016 SN - 3319408828 3319408836 PB - Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, DB - UniCat KW - Philosophy. KW - Ethics. KW - Religion KW - Philosophy of Religion. KW - Theodicy. KW - Evil, Problem of (Theology) KW - God KW - Permissive will of God KW - Problem of evil (Theology) KW - Permissive will KW - Will, Permissive KW - Good and evil KW - Mental philosophy KW - Humanities KW - Deontology KW - Ethics, Primitive KW - Ethology KW - Moral philosophy KW - Morality KW - Morals KW - Philosophy, Moral KW - Science, Moral KW - Philosophy KW - Values KW - Religion—Philosophy. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:14228398 AB - This book defends antitheodicism, arguing that theodicies, seeking to excuse God for evil and suffering in the world, fail to ethically acknowledge the victims of suffering. The authors argue for this view using literary and philosophical resources, commencing with Immanuel Kant’s 1791 “Theodicy Essay” and its reading of the Book of Job. Three important twentieth century antitheodicist positions are explored, including “Jewish” post-Holocaust ethical antitheodicism, Wittgensteinian antitheodicism exemplified by D.Z. Phillips and pragmatist antitheodicism defended by William James. The authors argue that these approaches to evil and suffering are fundamentally Kantian. Literary works such as Franz Kafka’sThe Trial, Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, and George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, are examined in order to crucially advance the philosophical case for antitheodicism. ER -