Titlebook: Self and Other: Essays in Continental Philosophy of Religion; Eugene Thomas Long Book 2007 Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2007 God.P

Perceive

Apophasis and the turn of philosophy to religion: From Neoplatonic negative theology to postmodern oplatonic commentary tradition on Plato’s . as the matrix for a distinctively apophatic thinking that takes the truth of metaphysical doctrines as something other than anything that can be logically articulated. It focuses on Damascius in the 5–6th century AD as the culmination of this tradition in

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,From “ghost in the machine” to “spiritual automaton”: Philosophical meditation in Wittgenstein, Cavh Wittgenstein, Austin, and the problem of other minds. This unlikely debate, the only extensive discussion of Levinas by Cavell in his long philosophical career sofar, focuses on their different reception of Descartes’s idea of the infinite. The essay proposes to read both thinkers against the back

Calibrate

Naming the Unnameable God: Levinas, Derrida, and Marion,nas, God is never experienced directly but only as a third person whose infinity is testified to in the infinity of responsibility to the hungry. For Derrida, God remains the unnameable “wholly other” accessible only as the indeterminate term of pure reference in prayer. For Marion, God remains the

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Vision and voice: Phenomenology and theology in the work of Jean-Luc Marion,l of presuppositionless intuition. It will also be a phenomenology of inverse intentionality, one in which the constituting subject is constituted by the look and the voice of another. In light of these suggestions, the phenomenology of Jean-Luc Marion is defended against three critiques, namely tha

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Suffering and transcendence,diverting the reality of suffering or denying the meaning of human existence and divine reality. Particular attention is given to describing and interpreting what I call the transcendent dimensions of suffering with the intent of showing that in the experience of suffereing persons come up against t

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Repentance and forgiveness: the undoing of time,andemic ills of the contemporary world. In light of their magnitude, are repentance, regret for the harms inflicted upon others or oneself, and forgiveness, proferring the erasure of the guilt of those who have inflicted these harms, rendered nugatory? Jacques Derrida claims that forgiveness is intr

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An end to evil? Philosophical and political reflections,surgence: the atrocities of totalitarianism (summarized under the label of “Auschwitz”) and the debacle of September 11 and its aftermath. Following September 11, a “war on terror” has been unleashed and some writers have advocated an all-out assault on, and military victory over, evil. Taking issue

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,Salvaging and secularizing the semantic contents of religion: the limitations of Habermas’s postmethis earlier, apparently dismissive attitude towards religion to his presently more receptive stance. This more receptive stance is evident in his recent emphasis on critical engagement with the semantic contents of religion and may be characterized by two interrelated theses: (a) the view that relig

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