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OUT OF EDEN This page intentionally left blank O U T O F E D E N Adam and Eve and the Problem of Evil ■ ■ ■ ■ Paul W. Kahn PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS Princeton and Oxford Copyright©2007byPrincetonUniversityPress PublishedbyPrincetonUniversityPress, 41WilliamStreet,Princeton,NewJersey08540 IntheUnitedKingdom:PrincetonUniversityPress, 3MarketPlace,Woodstock,OxfordshireOX201SY AllRightsReserved Kahn,PaulW.,1952– OutofEden:AdamandEveandtheproblemofevil/PaulW.Kahn. p. cm. ISBN-13:978-0-691-12693-7(hardcover:alk.paper) ISBN-10:0-691-12693-3(hardcover:alk.paper) 1. Goodandevil.I.Title. BJ1401.K34 2007 170—dc22 2006015864 BritishLibraryCataloging-in-PublicationDataisavailable ThisbookhasbeencomposedinSabonandCopperplatedisplay Printedonacid-freepaper.∞ pup.princeton.edu PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 CONTENTS Acknowledgments vii Introduction: TheStudyofEvil 1 1. APreliminaryMeditationonOedipusandAdam 16 2. EvilandtheImageoftheSacred 53 3. LoveandEvil 106 4. PoliticalEvil:SlaveryandtheShameofNature 143 5. PoliticalEvil:Killing,Sacrifice,andtheImageofGod 174 Conclusion: Tragedy,Comedy,andtheBanalityofEvil 211 Index 223 This page intentionally left blank ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Itisdifficulttothankpeopleforteachingmeaboutevil.Inthisbook, however, I argue that evil and loveare bound to each other, and that wefindevilwherewefindlove.Tolearnaboutevil,Ihavestudiedthe pathologyof love.I hopethat thishas notmade mebad companyto familyandfriends.Iamfortunateinknowingthatnoamountofinter- est in evil could threaten the love that sustains my world. For that, I ammostgrateful. Ofcourse,Ihavealsohadhelpwiththeoryandtext.Myfirstideas about evil were formed in a seminar I taught at the Yale Law School in2000.Tothediversegroupofstudentsinthatclass,Ioweaspecial debt. In the summer of 2005, the entire manuscript was critiqued by a powerful group of young scholars in an interdisciplinary seminar onlaw,politics,andtheologysponsoredbytheNationalHumanities CenterandtheBerlinWissenschaftskolleg.Thesetwoseminarsrepre- sentedthebeginningandendoftheprocessofwritingthisbook,and I owe much to all who were involved. Several friends and colleagues reviewedtheentiremanuscript,providingmanyvaluablesuggestions. Inparticular,IthankDavidLuban,BruceAckerman,BenjaminBerger, Tico Taussig, Max Kohn, and Ulrich Haltern. Adam Romero helped to get the manuscript in final shape. As with each of my books, Bar- bara Mianzo kept the whole process moving smoothly. Finally, I ac- knowledge the institutional support of the Yale Law School, which has made it possible for me to pursue my ideas wherever they may leadme. This page intentionally left blank OUT OF EDEN

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