With the World at Heart: Studies in the Secular Today
Autor Professor Thomas A. Carlsonen Limba Engleză Hardback – iul 2019
What is the role of love in opening and sustaining the temporal worlds we inhabit? One of the leading scholars in philosophy and the history of religious thought, Thomas A. Carlson here traces this question through Christian theology, twentieth-century phenomenological and deconstructive philosophy, and nineteenth-century individualism. Revising Augustine’s insight that when we love a place, we dwell there in the heart, Carlson also pointedly resists lines of thought that seek to transcend loss and its grief by loving all things within the realm of the eternal. Through masterful readings of Heidegger, Derrida, Marion, Nancy, Emerson, and Nietzsche, Carlson shows that the fragility and sorrow of mortal existence in its transience do not, in fact, contradict love, but instead empower love to create a world.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780226617367
ISBN-10: 022661736X
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.43 kg
Ediția:First Edition
Editura: University of Chicago Press
Colecția University of Chicago Press
ISBN-10: 022661736X
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.43 kg
Ediția:First Edition
Editura: University of Chicago Press
Colecția University of Chicago Press
Notă biografică
Thomas A. Carlson is professor of religious studies and founding director of the Humanities and Social Change Center at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of Indiscretion: Finitude and the Naming of God and The Indiscrete Image: Infinitude and Creation of the Human, both also published by the University of Chicago Press.
Cuprins
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations of Main Texts Cited
Preview: The Demands of the Day
1 When We Love—A Place: World’s End with Cormac McCarthy
2 Mourning Places and Time in Augustine
3 The Conversion of Time to the Time of Conversion: Augustine with Marion
4 The Time of His Syllables: Dying Together with Derrida and Augustine
5 Thinking Love and Mortality with Heidegger
6 World Loss or Heart Failure: Pedagogies of Estrangement in Harrison and Nancy
7 Ages of Learning . . . the Secular Today with Emerson and Nietzsche
Last Look
Bibliography
Index
Abbreviations of Main Texts Cited
Preview: The Demands of the Day
1 When We Love—A Place: World’s End with Cormac McCarthy
2 Mourning Places and Time in Augustine
3 The Conversion of Time to the Time of Conversion: Augustine with Marion
4 The Time of His Syllables: Dying Together with Derrida and Augustine
5 Thinking Love and Mortality with Heidegger
6 World Loss or Heart Failure: Pedagogies of Estrangement in Harrison and Nancy
7 Ages of Learning . . . the Secular Today with Emerson and Nietzsche
Last Look
Bibliography
Index
Recenzii
“Carlson… does an excellent job of explaining the notoriously difficult thinkers that he reads in this meditation on the meaning of love in a secular age.”
“Thomas Carlson’s With the World at Heart is masterful. With exceptional clarity, conceptual rigor, and creative thinking, Carlson brings one phase of the Continental philosophy of religion to culmination and opens up new avenues for future work.”
“This is a work of Continental philosophy at its best—erudite, historical, analytical, and insightful. In deep dialogue with some of the most interesting thinkers of the past half century, Carlson offers nothing less than a ‘philosophy of spirit’ for our age, where spirit appears as the world-forming power of love as well as the love-preserving power of world. A major contribution to our understanding of human finitude in its existential openness to time and world.”