The theological turn in French phenomenology has been of great interest to scholars working in contemporary continental thought, but according to J. Aaron Simmons, not enough has been done to bring these debates into conversation with more mainstream philosophy. Building on the work of Kierkegaard, Levinas, Marion, and Derrida, among others, Simmons suggests how continental philosophy of religion can intersect with political philosophy, environmental philosophy, and theories of knowledge. By productively engaging philosophical "God-talk," Simmons proposes a robust model of postmodern religious belief and ethical existence.…mehr
The theological turn in French phenomenology has been of great interest to scholars working in contemporary continental thought, but according to J. Aaron Simmons, not enough has been done to bring these debates into conversation with more mainstream philosophy. Building on the work of Kierkegaard, Levinas, Marion, and Derrida, among others, Simmons suggests how continental philosophy of religion can intersect with political philosophy, environmental philosophy, and theories of knowledge. By productively engaging philosophical "God-talk," Simmons proposes a robust model of postmodern religious belief and ethical existence.
J. Aaron Simmons is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Hendrix College. He is editor (with David Wood) of Kierkegaard and Levinas: Ethics, Politics, and Religion (IUP, 2008).
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Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations for Kierkegaard and Levinas Texts Introduction: God . . . Again-Again . . . God 1. The Problem: Richard Rorty's Critique of Emmanuel Levinas-or, Why Continental Ethics and Philosophy of Religion Face Political Challenges Part 1. A Question of Priority-Levinas and Kierkegaard 2. Hearing Divine Commands and Responding to the Call of the Other: A Reading of Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling 3. Bi-directional Relationality: Levinasian Readings of the Akedah and the (Dynamic) Ethical in Kierkegaard 4. An Ontology of Constitutive Responsibility: Kierkegaardian "Transparency" and Levinasian "Exposure" 5. Levinasian Subjectivity and Political Critique Part 2. Obligation and Transcendence in New Phenomenology 6. Mapping Twists and "Turns": An Introduction to the Current Debate and Suggestions for Moving Forward 7. Reconstructive Separatism: On Phenomenology and Theology 8. Is Continental Philosophy Just Catholicism for Atheists? Critique and Kenosis Part 3. Intersections and Applications 9. The Religious: Maintaining the Paradox-Wittgenstein and Kierkegaard on Postmodern Christianity 10. The Political: Politics as an Ethico-religious Task-Reconsidering Religion in the Public Square 11. The Epistemological: Between Trust and Hope-Justification in a Deconstructive Democracy 12. The Ethical: Expansive Relationality-Levinas, Community, and Climate Change 13. The Ethico-Political: Following Postmodern Exemplars Notes Bibliography Index
Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations for Kierkegaard and Levinas Texts Introduction: God . . . Again-Again . . . God 1. The Problem: Richard Rorty's Critique of Emmanuel Levinas-or, Why Continental Ethics and Philosophy of Religion Face Political Challenges Part 1. A Question of Priority-Levinas and Kierkegaard 2. Hearing Divine Commands and Responding to the Call of the Other: A Reading of Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling 3. Bi-directional Relationality: Levinasian Readings of the Akedah and the (Dynamic) Ethical in Kierkegaard 4. An Ontology of Constitutive Responsibility: Kierkegaardian "Transparency" and Levinasian "Exposure" 5. Levinasian Subjectivity and Political Critique Part 2. Obligation and Transcendence in New Phenomenology 6. Mapping Twists and "Turns": An Introduction to the Current Debate and Suggestions for Moving Forward 7. Reconstructive Separatism: On Phenomenology and Theology 8. Is Continental Philosophy Just Catholicism for Atheists? Critique and Kenosis Part 3. Intersections and Applications 9. The Religious: Maintaining the Paradox-Wittgenstein and Kierkegaard on Postmodern Christianity 10. The Political: Politics as an Ethico-religious Task-Reconsidering Religion in the Public Square 11. The Epistemological: Between Trust and Hope-Justification in a Deconstructive Democracy 12. The Ethical: Expansive Relationality-Levinas, Community, and Climate Change 13. The Ethico-Political: Following Postmodern Exemplars Notes Bibliography Index
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