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The Michel Henry Reader (Hardcover)
Michel Henry; Edited by Scott Davidson, Frederic Seyler; Translated by Leonard Lawlor, Joseph Rivera, …
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R2,860
Discovery Miles 28 600
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From beginning to end, the philosophy of Michel Henry offers an
original and profound reflection on life. Henry challenges the
conventional understanding of life as a set of natural processes
and a general classification of beings. Maintaining that our access
to the meaning of life has been blocked by naturalism as well as by
traditional philosophical assumptions, Henry carries out an
enterprise that can rightfully be called "radical." His
phenomenology leads back to the original dimension of life-to a
reality that precedes and conditions the natural sciences and even
objectivity as such. The Michel Henry Reader is an indispensable
resource for those who are approaching Henry for the first time as
well as for those who are already familiar with his work. It
provides broad coverage of the major themes in his philosophy and
new translations of Henry's most important essays. Sixteen chapters
are divided into four parts, demonstrating the profound
implications of Henry's philosophy of life for phenomenology; for
subjectivity; for politics, art, and language; and for ethics and
religion.
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The Michel Henry Reader (Paperback)
Michel Henry; Edited by Scott Davidson, Frederic Seyler; Translated by Leonard Lawlor, Joseph Rivera, …
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R938
Discovery Miles 9 380
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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From beginning to end, the philosophy of Michel Henry offers an
original and profound reflection on life. Henry challenges the
conventional understanding of life as a set of natural processes
and a general classification of beings. Maintaining that our access
to the meaning of life has been blocked by naturalism as well as by
traditional philosophical assumptions, Henry carries out an
enterprise that can rightfully be called "radical." His
phenomenology leads back to the original dimension of life-to a
reality that precedes and conditions the natural sciences and even
objectivity as such. The Michel Henry Reader is an indispensable
resource for those who are approaching Henry for the first time as
well as for those who are already familiar with his work. It
provides broad coverage of the major themes in his philosophy and
new translations of Henry's most important essays. Sixteen chapters
are divided into four parts, demonstrating the profound
implications of Henry's philosophy of life for phenomenology; for
subjectivity; for politics, art, and language; and for ethics and
religion.
How should one respond, personally or theologically, to genocide
committed on one's behalf? After the Allied bombing of Darmstadt,
Germany, in 1944, some Lutheran young women perceived their citys
destruction as an expression of God's wratha punishment for Hitlers
murder of six million Jews, purportedly on behalf of the German
people. George Faithful tells the story of a number of these young
women, who formed the Ecumenical Sisterhood of Mary in 1947 in
order to embrace lives of radical repentance for the sins of the
German people against God and against the Jews. Under Mother
Basilea Schlink, the sisters embraced an ideology of collective
national guilt. According to Schlink, a handful of true Christians
were called to lead their nation in repentance, interceding and
making spiritual sacrifices as priests on its behalf and saving it
from looming destruction. Schlink explained that these ideas were
rooted in her reading of the Hebrew Bible; in fact, Faithful
discovers, they also bore the influence of German nationalism.
Schlinks vision resulted in penitential practices that dominated
the life of her community. While the women of the sisterhood were
subject to each other, they elevated themselves and their spiritual
authority above that of any male leaders. They offered female and
gender-neutral paradigms of self-sacrifice as normative for all
Christians. Mothering the Fatherland shows how the sisters
overturned German Protestant norms for gender roles, communal life,
and nationalism in their pursuit of redemption.
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