Negative Theology And Modern French Philosophy

Author : Arthur Bradley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780415758772
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Negative Theology and Modern French Philosophy written by Arthur Bradley and published by . This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores contemporary French philosophical readings of negative theology. It is the first general and comparative treatment of the role of negative theology in contemporary French thought.

Author : Orit Ichilov
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415348041
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Political Learning and Citizenship Education Under Conflict written by Orit Ichilov and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses social environments in conflict situations - with a focus on Israel and Palestine - and looks at the impact these environments have on the political learning and citizenship orientations of youngsters.

Author : William P. Franke
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
ISBN 13 : 0268079773
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book A Philosophy of the Unsayable written by William P. Franke and published by University of Notre Dame Pess. This book was released on 2014-03-30 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In A Philosophy of the Unsayable, William Franke argues that the encounter with what exceeds speech has become the crucial philosophical issue of our time. He proposes an original philosophy pivoting on analysis of the limits of language. The book also offers readings of literary texts as poetically performing the philosophical principles it expounds. Franke engages with philosophical theologies and philosophies of religion in the debate over negative theology and shows how apophaticism infiltrates the thinking even of those who attempt to deny or delimit it. In six cohesive essays, Franke explores fundamental aspects of unsayability. In the first and third essays, his philosophical argument is carried through with acute attention to modes of unsayability that are revealed best by literary works, particularly by negativities of poetic language in the oeuvres of Paul Celan and Edmond Jabès. Franke engages in critical discussion of apophatic currents of philosophy both ancient and modern, focusing on Hegel and French post-Hegelianism in his second essay and on Neoplatonism in his fourth essay. He treats Neoplatonic apophatics especially as found in Damascius and as illuminated by postmodern thought, particularly Jean-Luc Nancy’s deconstruction of Christianity. In the last two essays, Franke treats the tension between two contemporary approaches to philosophy of religion—Radical Orthodoxy and radically secular or Death-of-God theologies. A Philosophy of the Unsayable will interest scholars and students of philosophy, literature, religion, and the humanities. This book develops Franke's explicit theory of unsayability, which is informed by his long-standing engagement with major representatives of apophatic thought in the Western tradition.

Author : Vincent Descombes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521296724
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Modern French Philosophy written by Vincent Descombes and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critical introduction to modern French philosoophy, from one of the liveliest contemporary practitioners.

Author : Peter Jonkers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book God in France written by Peter Jonkers and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to some, French philosophy has taken an obvious turn towards/into a theological context. In their work, contemporary philosophers such as Ricoeur, Levinas, Girard, Henry, and even Derrida and Lyotard in their later periods focus on issues usually associated with theological debates. For thinkers like Henry, Marion, and Lacoste, theology even plays a prominent role in their thought. Why this post-Heideggerian turn to God? This book introduces the typically French debate of the so-called 'theological turn of French philosophy' through a presentation of the philosophers mentioned. Why are they all interested in the quest for God and Religion? How do they understand God in a philosophical way? Thinking about these questions offers to both philosophy and theology the opportunity for a crossover which is mutually enriching. This book aims to contribute to this fascinating process.

Author : David Henderson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135098913
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Apophatic Elements in the Theory and Practice of Psychoanalysis written by David Henderson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can the psychotherapist think about not knowing? Is psychoanalysis a contemplative practice? This book explores the possibility that there are resources in philosophy and theology which can help psychoanalysts and psychotherapists think more clearly about the unknown and the unknowable. The book applies the lens of apophasis to psychoanalysis, providing a detailed reading of apophasis in the work of Pseudo-Dionysius and exploring C.G. Jung's engagement with apophatic discourse. Pseudo-Dionysius brought together Greek and biblical currents of negative theology and the via negativa, and the psychology of Jung can be read as a continuation and extension of the apophatic tradition. Henderson discusses the concept of the transcendent function as an apophatic dynamic at the heart of Jung's thought, and suggests that apophasis can provide the key to understanding the family resemblance among the disparate schools of psychoanalysis. Chapters consider: -Jung’s discussion of opposites, including his reception of Nicholas of Cusa’s concept of the coincidence of opposites -Jung's engagement with Neoplatonism and Pseudo-Dionysius -the work of Jung in relation to Deleuze, Derrida and other writers -how motifs in Pseudo-Dionysius’ Ecclesiastical Hierarchy resonate with contemporary psychoanalytic psychotherapy. The in-depth examination of primary sources in this comprehensive volume provides a platform for research into apophasis in the wider field of psychoanalysis. It will prove valuable reading for scholars and analysts of Jungian psychology studying religion and mysticism.

Author : Sarah Coakley
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1444356453
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Re-thinking Dionysius the Areopagite written by Sarah Coakley and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-08-24 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dionysius the Areopagite, the early sixth-century Christian writer, bridged Christianity and neo-Platonist philosophy. Bringing together a team of international scholars, this volume surveys how Dionysius’s thought and work has been interpreted, in both East and West, up to the present day. One of the first volumes in English to survey the reception history of Dionysian thought, both East and West Provides a clear account of both modern and post-modern debates about Dionysius’s standing as philosopher and Christian theologian Examines the contrasts between Dionysius’s own pre-modern concerns and those of the post-modern philosophical tradition Highlights the great variety of historic readings of Dionysius, and also considers new theories and interpretations Analyzes the main points of hermeneutical contrast between East and West

Author : Marika Rose
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 0823284085
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book A Theology of Failure written by Marika Rose and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone agrees that theology has failed; but the question of how to understand and respond to this failure is complex and contested. Against both the radical orthodox attempt to return to a time before the theology’s failure and the deconstructive theological attempt to open theology up to the hope of a future beyond failure, Rose proposes an account of Christian identity as constituted by, not despite, failure. Understanding failure as central to theology opens up new possibilities for confronting Christianity’s violent and kyriarchal history and abandoning the attempt to discover a pure Christ outside of the grotesque materiality of the church. The Christian mystical tradition begins with Dionysius the Areopagite’s uncomfortable but productive conjunction of Christian theology and Neoplatonism. The tensions generated by this are central to Dionysius’s legacy, visible not only in subsequent theological thought but also in much twentieth century continental philosophy as it seeks to disentangle itself from its Christian ancestry. A Theology of Failure shows how the work of Slavoj Žižek represents an attempt to repeat the original move of Christian mystical theology, bringing together the themes of language, desire, and transcendence not with Neoplatonism but with a materialist account of the world. Tracing these themes through the work of Dionysius and Derrida and through contemporary debates about the gift, violence, and revolution, this book offers a critical theological engagement with Žižek's account of social and political transformation, showing how Žižek's work makes possible a materialist reading of apophatic theology and Christian identity.

Author : Tamsin Jones
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253222869
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book A Genealogy of Marion's Philosophy of Religion written by Tamsin Jones and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2011-02-15 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tamsin Jones believes that locating Jean-Luc Marion solely within theological or phenomenological discourse undermines the coherence of his intellectual and philosophical enterprise. Through a comparative examination of Marion's interpretation and use of Dionysius the Areopagite and Gregory of Nyssa, Jones evaluates the interplay of the manifestation and hiddenness of phenomena. By placing Marion against the backdrop of these Greek fathers, Jones sharpens the tension between Marion's rigorous method and its intended purpose: a safeguard against idolatry. At once situated at the crossroads of the debate over the turn to religion in French phenomenology and an inquiry into the retrieval of early Christian writings within this discourse, A Genealogy of Marion's Philosophy of Religion opens up a new view of the phenomenology of religious experience.

Author : David Newheiser
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108498663
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Hope in a Secular Age written by David Newheiser and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-12-19 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uses premodern theology and postmodern theory to show the endurance of religious and political commitments through the practice of hope.