'Modern European thought' describes a wide range of philosophies,
cultural programmes, and political arguments developed in Europe in
the period following the French Revolution. Throughout this period,
many of the wide range of 'modernisms' (and anti-modernisms) had a
distinctly religious and even theological character-not least when
religion was subjected to the harshest criticism. Yet for all the
breadth and complexity of modern European thought and, in
particular, its relations to theology, a distinct body of themes
and approaches recurred in each generation. Moreover, many of the
issues that took intellectual shape in Europe are now global,
rather than narrowly European, and, for good or ill, they form part
of Europe's bequest to the world-from colonialism and the economic
theories behind globalisation through to democracy to terrorism.
This volume attempts to identify and comment on some of the most
important of these. The thirty chapters are grouped into six
thematic parts, moving from questions of identity and the self,
through discussions of the human condition, the age of revolution,
the world (both natural and technological), and knowledge
methodologies, concluding with a section looking explicitly at how
major theological themes have developed in modern European thought.
The chapters engage with major thinkers including Kant, Hegel,
Kierkegaard, Heidegger, Schleiermacher, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky,
Barth, Rahner, Tillich, Bonhoeffer, Sartre, de Beauvoir,
Wittgenstein, and Derrida, amongst many others. Taken together,
these new essays provide a rich and reflective overview of the
interchange between theology, philosophy and critical thought in
Europe, over the past two hundred years.
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