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Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy
In God, Mystery, and Mystification, Denys Turner presents eight
essays covering the major issues of philosophical and practical
theology that he has focused on over the fifty years of his
academic career. While a somewhat heterogeneous collection, the
chapters are loosely linked by a focus on the mystery of God and on
distinguishing that mystery from merely idolatrous mystifications.
The book covers three main fields: theological epistemology,
medieval and early modern mystical theologies, and the relation of
Christian belief to natural science and politics. Turner develops
the implications of a moderate realist account of theological
knowledge as distinct from a fashionable, postmodernist
epistemology. This modern realist epistemology is embodied in
connections between theoretical, speculative theologies and the
practice of the Christian faith in a number of different ways, but
mainly as bearing upon the practical, lived connections between
faith and reason, between reason and the mystical, between faith
and science, and among faith, prayer, and politics. Scholars and
advanced students of theology, religious studies, the history of
ideas, and medieval thought will be interested in this book.
The Italian Pragmatists were a group of philosophers in the early
20th century, most notably including Giovanni Vailati, Mario
Calderoni, Giovanni Papini and Giuseppe Prezzolini. They gathered
around the journal Leonardo, published in Florence. The Italian
philosophers were in contact with the American Pragmatists,
especially with C.S.V. Peirce and W. James, and developed many
original and provocative ideas that made the Italian Pragmatists
allies and enemies. Critics have often stressed the differences
between their versions of Pragmatism. This volume emphasizes what
they shared, and their value for philosophy and culture.
In Workers' Self-Management in Argentina, Marcelo Vieta homes in on
the history, consolidation, and socio-political dimensions of
Argentina's empresas recuperadas por sus trabajadores
(worker-recuperated enterprises), a worker-led company occupation
movement that has surged since the turn-of-the-millennium and the
country's neo-liberal crisis.
In his Treatise on the Virtues, Aquinas discusses the character and
function of habit; the essence, subject, cause, and meaning of
virtue; and the separate intellectual, moral, cardinal, and
theological virtues. His work constitutes one of the most thorough
and incisive accounts of virtue in the history of Christian
philosophy. John Oesterle's accurate and elegant translation makes
this enduring work readily accessible to the modern reader.
Gustav Landauer was an unconventional anarchist who aspired to a
return to a communal life. His antipolitical rejection of
authoritarian assumptions is based on a radical linguistic
scepticism that could be considered the theoretical premise of his
anarchism. The present volume aims to add to the existing
scholarship on Landauer by shedding new light on his work,
focussing on the two interrelated notions of skepsis and
antipolitics. In a time marked by a deep doubt concerning modern
politics, Landauer's alternative can help us to more seriously
address the struggle for a different articulation of our
communitarian and ecological needs.
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