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Violence is a central issue of contemporary society at all levels,
affecting human relationships from the most intimate to the most
impersonal. But what is violence? Is violence justifiable? What
relevance does the fate of the victim of violence have to such
questions? To address these and similar questions, this volume
brings together thinkers from a wide range of philosophical
backgrounds who employ a rich variety of methods, ranging from the
strictly analytic to the postmodern. They explore issues such as
responsibility, provocation, violation, cruelty, self-determination
and deception in attempting to understand violence in relation both
to the suffering of its victims and the justifications offered by
its perpetrators and their supporters. In exploring these issues
the essays collected in this volume explore terrorism, rape,
genocide and state-sponsored violence.
Charting a genealogy of the modern idea of the self, Felix Ó
Murchadha explores the accounts of self-identity expounded by key
Early Modern philosophers, Montaigne, Descartes, Pascal, Spinoza,
Hume and Kant. The question of the self as we would discuss it
today only came to the forefront of philosophical concern with
Modernity, beginning with an appeal to the inherited models of the
self found in Stoicism, Scepticism, Augustinianism and Pelagianism,
before continuing to develop as a subject of philosophical debate.
Exploring this trajectory, The Formation of the Modern Self pursues
a number of themes central to the Early Modern development of
selfhood, including, amongst others, grace and passion. It examines
on the one hand the deep-rooted dependence on the divine and the
longing for happiness and salvation and, on the other hand, the
distancing from the Stoic ideal of apatheia, as philosophers from
Descartes to Spinoza recognised the passions as essential to human
agency. Fundamental to the new question of the self was the
relation of faith and reason. Uncovering commonalities and
differences amongst Early Modern philosophers, Ó Murchadha traces
how the voluntarism of Modernity led to the sceptical approach to
the self in Montaigne and Hume and how this sceptical strand, in
turn, culminated in Kant’s rational faith. More than a history of
the self in philosophy, The Formation of the Modern Self inspires a
fresh look at self-identity, uncovering not only how our modern
idea of selfhood developed but just how embedded the concept of
self is in external considerations: from ethics, to reason, to
religion.
Charting a genealogy of the modern idea of the self, Felix O
Murchadha explores the accounts of self-identity expounded by key
Early Modern philosophers, Montaigne, Descartes, Pascal, Spinoza,
Hume and Kant. The question of the self as we would discuss it
today only came to the forefront of philosophical concern with
Modernity, beginning with an appeal to the inherited models of the
self found in Stoicism, Scepticism, Augustinianism and Pelagianism,
before continuing to develop as a subject of philosophical debate.
Exploring this trajectory, The Formation of the Modern Self pursues
a number of themes central to the Early Modern development of
selfhood, including, amongst others, grace and passion. It examines
on the one hand the deep-rooted dependence on the divine and the
longing for happiness and salvation and, on the other hand, the
distancing from the Stoic ideal of apatheia, as philosophers from
Descartes to Spinoza recognised the passions as essential to human
agency. Fundamental to the new question of the self was the
relation of faith and reason. Uncovering commonalities and
differences amongst Early Modern philosophers, O Murchadha traces
how the voluntarism of Modernity led to the sceptical approach to
the self in Montaigne and Hume and how this sceptical strand, in
turn, culminated in Kant's rational faith. More than a history of
the self in philosophy, The Formation of the Modern Self inspires a
fresh look at self-identity, uncovering not only how our modern
idea of selfhood developed but just how embedded the concept of
self is in external considerations: from ethics, to reason, to
religion.
This book presents Heidegger as a thinker of revolution.
Understanding revolution as an occurrence whereby the previously
unforeseeable comes to appear as inevitable, the temporal character
of such an event is explored through Heidegger's discussion of
temporality and historicity. Beginning with his magnum opus, Being
and Time, Heidegger is shown to have undertaken a radical
rethinking of time in terms of human action, understood as
involving both doing and making and as implicated in an interplay
of the opportune moment (kairos) and temporal continuity (chronos).
Developing this theme through his key writings of the early 1930s,
the book shows how Heidegger's analyses of truth and freedom led to
an increasingly dialectical account of time and action culminating
in his phenomenology of the - artistic and political - 'work'. A
context is thus given for Heidegger's political engagement in 1933.
While diagnosing the moral failure of this engagement, the book
defends Heidegger's account of the time of human action and shows
it to foreshadow his later thought of a 'new beginning'.
How does Christian philosophy address phenomena in the world?
Felix O Murchadha believes that seeing, hearing, or otherwise
sensing the world through faith requires transcendence or thinking
through glory and night (being and meaning). By challenging much of
Western metaphysics, O Murchadha shows how phenomenology opens new
ideas about being, and how philosophers of "the theological turn"
have addressed questions of creation, incarnation, resurrection,
time, love, and faith. He explores the possibility of a
phenomenology of Christian life and argues against any simple
separation of philosophy and theology or reason and faith."
This book presents Heidegger as a thinker of revolution.
Understanding revolution as an occurrence whereby the previously
unforeseeable comes to appear as inevitable, the temporal character
of such an event is explored through Heidegger's discussion of
temporality and historicity. Beginning with his magnum opus, "Being
and Time, " Heidegger is shown to have undertaken a radical
rethinking of time in terms of human action, understood as
involving both doing and making and as implicated in an interplay
of the opportune moment ("kairos") and temporal continuity
("chronos"). Developing this theme through his key writings of the
early 1930s, the book shows how Heidegger's analyses of truth and
freedom led to an increasingly dialectical account of time and
action culminating in his phenomenology of the - artistic and
political - 'work'. A context is thus given for Heidegger's
political engagement in 1933. While diagnosing the moral failure of
this engagement, the book defends Heidegger's account of the time
of human action and shows it to foreshadow his later thought of a
'new beginning'.
Violence is a central issue of contemporary society at all levels,
affecting human relationships from the most intimate to the most
impersonal. But what is violence? Is violence justifiable? What
relevance does the fate of the victim of violence have to such
questions? To address these and similar questions, this volume
brings together thinkers from a wide range of philosophical
backgrounds who employ a rich variety of methods, ranging from the
strictly analytic to the postmodern. They explore issues such as
responsibility, provocation, violation, cruelty, self-determination
and deception in attempting to understand violence in relation both
to the suffering of its victims and the justifications offered by
its perpetrators and their supporters. In exploring these issues
the essays collected in this volume explore terrorism, rape,
genocide and state-sponsored violence.
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