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This book explores how the figure of the devil and related notions of evil have been conceptualized, challenged, or transformed by philosophers from the early modern period through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It considers how secular and rationalist frameworks addressed questions previously governed by theological demonology, including the problem of evil, the nature of moral transgression, and the limits of human freedom. The text engages with thinkers who variously replaced, reinterpreted, or internalized diabolical imagery in their accounts of consciousness, history, and ethics. Rather than treating the devil as merely a religious symbol, the work investigates its persistence as a philosophical problem concerning negation, rebellion, and the darker capacities of reason itself.
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