Ulysses in Response to the Problem of Evil

Abstract
Not “since Goethe’s Faust,” Samuel Foster Damon proposed in “The Odyssey in Dublin,” in 1929, had there been a more “thoroughgoing literary attempt” than James Joyce’s Ulysses “to analyze the ancient problem of evil.” Damon’s focus being on the theological version of the problem, the proposed presentation would explore Ulysses’ invocation of the more modern secular version as well.
Presenter Biography

Trip McCrossin has been with the Philosophy Department at Rutgers University for twenty years, working in various ways on the history and legacy of the Enlightenment in philosophy and popular culture, writing both academically and popularly on the subject. The former includes, for example, preparing collections of first English translations of Rousseau’s and Kant’s writings and expanded versions of recent presentations to the Biennial Rousseau Association Colloquium. The latter includes, for example, periodic contributions to collections in the Blackwell and Carus Popular Culture and Philosophy series, in 2019 with Robin Bunce, Blade Runner 2049 and Philosophy, and forthcoming with Sue Zemka, Handmaids’ and Aunts’ Tales: Learning from Atwood about Resisting Gileads Fictional and Real.

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