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Postmodern Apologetics? - Arguments for God in Contemporary Philosophy (Hardcover, New)
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Postmodern Apologetics? - Arguments for God in Contemporary Philosophy (Hardcover, New)
Series: Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
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This book provides an introduction to the emerging field of
continental philosophy of religion by treating the thought of its
most important representatives, including its appropriations by
several thinkers in the United States. Part I provides context by
examining religious aspects of the thought of Martin Heidegger,
Emmanuel Levinas, and Jacques Derrida. Christina Gschwandtner
contends that, although the work of these thinkers is not
apologetic in nature (i.e., it does not provide an argument for
religion, whether Christianity or Judaism), it prepares the ground
for the more religiously motivated work of more recent thinkers by
giving religious language and ideas some legitimacy in
philosophical discussions. Part II devotes a chapter to each of the
contemporary French thinkers who articulate a phenomenology of
religious experience: Paul Ricoeur, Jean-Luc Marion, Michel Henry,
Jean-Louis Chretien, Jean-Yves Lacoste, and Emmanuel Falque. In it,
the author argues that their respective philosophies can be read as
an apologetics of sorts-namely, as arguments for the coherence of
thought about God and the viability of religious experience-though
each thinker does so in a different fashion and to a different
degree. Part III considers the three major thinkers who have
popularized and extended this phenomenology in the U.S. context:
John D. Caputo, Merold Westphal, and Richard Kearney. The book thus
both provides an introduction to important contemporary thinkers,
many of whom have not yet received much treatment in English, and
also argues that their philosophies can be read as providing an
argument for Christian faith.
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