Evil in modern thought : an alternative history of philosophy / Susan Neiman.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [337]-343) and index.

Fire from heaven -- God's advocates : Leibniz and Pope -- Newton of the mind : Jean-Jacques Rousseau -- Divided wisdom : Immanuel Kant -- Real and rational : Hegel and Marx -- In conclusion -- Condeming the architect -- Raw material : Bayle's dictionary -- Voltaire's destinies -- The impotence of reason : David Hume -- End of the tunnel : the Marquis de Sade -- Schopenhauer : the world as tribunal -- Ends of an illusion -- Eternal choices : Nietzsche on redemption -- On consolation : Freud vs. providence -- Homeless -- Earthquakes : why Lisbon? -- Mass murders : why Auschwitz? -- Losses : ending modern theodicies -- Intentions : meaning and malice -- Terror : after September 11 -- Remains : Camus, Arendt, critical theory, Rawls -- Origins : sufficient reason.