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1 online resource (xii, [365] pages) |
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Perspectives in continental philosophy ; no. 45 |
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Perspectives in continental philosophy ; no. 45.
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| Contents |
The sleep of finitude: on the unease of philosophy and religion -- Between finitude and infinity: Hegelian reason and the Pascalian heart -- Religion and the poverty of philosophy -- Religious imagination and the counterfeit doubles of God -- God beyond the whole: between Solov'ev and Shestov -- Caesar with the soul of Christ: Nietzsche's highest impossibility -- The secret sources of strengthening: on courage -- On the betrayals of reverence -- Enemies: on hatred -- Is there a Sabbath for thought? On peace -- between philosophy and religion |
| Summary |
Annotation Seeking to renew an ancient companionship between the philosophical and the religious, this book's meditative chapters dwell on certain elemental experiences or happenings that keep the soul alive to the enigma of the divine. William Desmond engages the philosophical work of Pascal, Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Shestov, and Soloviev, among others, and pursues with a philosophical mindfulness what is most intimate in us, yet most universal: sleep, poverty, imagination, courage and witness, reverence, hatred and love, peace and war. Being religious has to do with that intimate universal, beyond arbitrary subjectivism and reductionist objectivism. In this book, he attempts to look at religion with a fresh and open mind, asking how philosophy might itself stand up to some of the questions posed to it by religion, not just how religion might stand up to the questions posed to it by philosophy. Desmond tries to pursue a new and different policy, one faithful to the light of this dialogue |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Philosophy and religion.
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Religion.
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Religion
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religion (discipline)
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RELIGION -- Philosophy.
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RELIGION -- Meditations.
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Religion
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Philosophy and religion
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Philosophie
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Religion
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Religionsphilosophie
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781429478830 |
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1429478837 |
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9780823248032 |
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0823248038 |
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