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Transforming Philosophy and Religion – Love`s Wisdom

Autor Norman Wirzba, Bruce Ellis Benson
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 6 mai 2008
Norman Wirzba, Bruce Ellis Benson, and an international group of philosophers and theologians describe how various expressions of philosophy are transformed by the discipline of love. While it has been fairly common for philosophers to think about love, the 16 compelling essays gathered here go beyond the commonplace to show how philosophy is implicated in the ways of love. What is at stake is how philosophy colors and shapes the way we receive and engage each other, our world, and God. Focusing primarily on the Continental tradition of philosophy of religion, the work presented in this volume engages thinkers such as St. Paul, Meister Eckhart, Kierkegaard, Husserl, Heidegger, Ricoeur, Derrida, Marion, Zizek, Irigaray, and Michele Le Doeuff. Emerging from the book is a complex definition of the wisdom of love which challenges how we think about nature, social justice, faith, gender, creation, medicine, politics, and ethics.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780253219589
ISBN-10: 0253219582
Pagini: 272
Dimensiuni: 156 x 235 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.39 kg
Editura: MH – Indiana University Press

Cuprins

Introduction, by Norman Wirzba and Bruce Ellis BensonPart 1. The Nature of the Quest1. The Primacy of Love, by Norman Wirzba; 2. The Economies of Knowledge and Love in Paul, by Bruce Ellis Benson; 3. Love, This Lenient Interpreter: Masks Reveal Complexity of Self, by Edward MooneyPart 2. Justice4. A Love as Strong as Death: Ricœur's Reading of the Song of Songs, by Mark Gedney; 5. Paul Ricœur and the Possibility of Just Love, by Christopher Watkin; 6. Why There Is No Either/Or in Works of Love: A Kantian Defense of Kierkegaardian (Christian) Unconditional Love, by Bertha Alvarez Manninen; 7. Living by Love: A Quasi-Apostolic carte postale on Love in Itself, If There Is Such a Thing, by John D. CaputoPart 3. The Sacred8. A Love that B(l)inds: Reflections on an Agapic Agnosticism, by B. Keith Putt; 9. Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder, by Brian Treanor; 10. Creation Ex Amore, by James Olthuis; 11. Militant Love: Zizek and the Christian Legacy, by Tyler Roberts; 12. Love as a Declaration of War? On the Absolute Character of Love in Jean-Luc Marion's Phenomenology of Eros, by Christina M. GschwandtnerPart 4. Rethinking Humanity13. Liberating Love's Capabilities: On the Wisdom of Love, by Pamela Sue Anderson; 14. The Genesis of Love: An Irigarayan Reading, by Ruthanne S. Pierson Crápo; 15. You Better Find Somebody to Love: Toward a Kierkegaardian Bioethic, by Amy Laura HallContributors; Index

Recenzii

Wirzba and Benson's astonishingly rich, scholarly compilation of essays from professors of philosophy and religion/religious studies brings a novel approach to the intersection of Christianity and Western philosophy. Rather than being a philosophy about love, this book shows that love provides the essential framework through which philosophy and theology both operate and manifest. If philosophy has as its goal an active understanding alongside of the world, then Christian agape love, understood as a deep concern for the Other as neighbor, is a necessary precondition. As John Caputo states: .".. love is what being-commanded-by-the-law is all about." James Olthuis's compelling essay suggests that the Creation be understood not as an out-of-chaos ex nihilo creation, but instead as a seduc! tive, ebullient creation ex amore (cum amore et ad amorem). Amy Laura Hall argues that love needs to be the process by which one approaches bioethics; by being able to manipulate genetics, is one changing the definition of humanity? Contributors wrestle respectfully with Kierkegaard, St. Paul, Levinas, and Derrida from diverse vantage points, but the primacy of love as the source for wisdom (and not another instance of dry subject matter) is never lost. This collection is both beautiful and exciting in its scope, content, and direction. Summing Up: Essential. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty. S. J. Shaw, Prairie View A&M University, Choice, January 2009--S. J. Shaw, Prairie View A&M University"Choice" (01/01/2009)

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Actively engages love in the practice of philosophy