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The Metaphysics of Night - Recovering Soul, Renewing Humanism (Paperback)
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The Metaphysics of Night - Recovering Soul, Renewing Humanism (Paperback)
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The Metaphysics of Night acknowledges a post-secular philosophy,
one that puts philosophy into serious dialogue with religion,
rather than considering religion a thing of the past. Matthew Del
Nevo deals with the cultural unconscious, inseparable from
religious consciousness, and draws on psychoanalysis and literature
as well as philosophy. The metaphysics of the night is Del Nevo's
metaphor for the deep and mysterious expanse of the soul.
Philosophically, the book is critical of Enlightenment presumptions
about knowledge and truth and overly spiritualizing tendencies in
religion. Its critical edge cuts against materialist and
historicist tendencies in the humanities and abstract
intellectualism in philosophy. Arguing for strong aesthetic values,
Del Nevo defends and explains soul and soulful experience, the
creation of depth, the ineffable, real presence, beauty, and saving
words, noting that the sources of all these are in us, but often
are blocked. Each of the five parts of this book testify to what
the author notes may be forgotten, but which ought not to be
forgotten. It is necessary for life as socially, religiously, and
educationally instituted within culture and as constitutive for
culture. Del Nevo deals with sensibility as a form of wisdom and
instinct that is not cognitive or knowledge/information based. He
argues for a shift of emphasis in culture from intellect to
intuition. This well-written work, filled with Catholic,
philosophic, and artistic thought will be of interest to all
philosophers, theologians, and students of culture.
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