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The thought of Jean-Louis Chrétien is most familiar to those who
have taken up the theological turn in French phenomenology, yet it
defies reduction to either phenomenology or theology, or for that
matter spirituality, literature, or Greek thought. Written in
beautiful French prose and argued with unsurpassed erudition,
Chrétien’s works defy easy interpretation. One nonetheless finds
a center of gravity in attempts to define and then elaborate an
original account of human being in terms of call and response, from
which there follow penetrating studies of language and body, as
well as illuminating approaches to a range of themes including
temporality, prayer, and religious reading. This volume gathers
original work from leading scholars in the fields of philosophy,
theology and poetics, including Chrétien’s collaborators,
successors, and Anglophone interpreters. They engage his work along
its main lines, at once presenting it in summary fashion and
exploring its strengths and weaknesses for our understanding of
some of the topics and problems that held his prolonged attention.
Readers new to Chrétien will easily find a number of points of
access, while more advanced readers will find that their
understanding is both deepened and enriched. Contributors: Rudolf
Bernet, Jeffrey Bloechl, Emmanuel Falque, Jérôme de Gramont,
Crina Gshwandtner, Emmanuel Housset, Stephen E. Lewis, Jean-Luc
Marion, Catherine Pickstock, Andrew Prevot
In this collection of essays, the sophistication and vibrancy of
contemporary phenomenological research is documented, including
both its engagement with key figures in the history of philosophy,
and with critical problems defining future directions of
philosophical investigations. It honors the writings of Richard
Cobb-Stevens, whose work in phenomenological philosophy, analytic
philosophy and the history of philosophy has served as model for
generations of philosophers working between these three fields of
research. The essays collected in this volume provide a unique
window on the contemporary state of the art in phenomenological
philosophy by leading scholars of international reputation from
North America and Europe. Historical figures such as
Aristotle and Hobbes are innovatively brought into dialogue with
phenomenological thinking. Phenomenological thinking is brought to
bear on a wide variety of problems, from the nature of artworks and
photography to questions concerning consciousness and knowledge.
Among the topics discussed in these specially commissioned
essays:Â phenomenology and Aristotle; the nature of the
primal ego; Hobbes and Husserl; intentionality and reference;
Neo-Aristotelian ethics; Husserl and Wittgenstein; photography; the
nature of artworks.
In this collection of essays, the sophistication and vibrancy of
contemporary phenomenological research is documented, including
both its engagement with key figures in the history of philosophy
as well as with critical problems defining future directions of
philosophical investigations. It honors the writings of Richard
Cobb-Stevens, whose work in phenomenological philosophy, analytic
philosophy and the history of philosophy has served as model for
generations of philosophers working between these three fields of
research. The essays collected in this volume provide an unique
window on the contemporary state of the art in phenomenological
philosophy by leading scholars of international reputation from
North America and Europe. Historical figures such as Aristotle and
Hobbes are innovatively brought into dialogue with phenomenological
thinking. Phenomenological thinking is brought to bear on a wide
variety of problems, from the nature of artworks and photography to
questions concerning consciousness and intentionality. Among the
topics discussed in these specially commissioned essays:
phenomenology and Aristotle; the nature of the primal ego; Hobbes
and Husserl; intentionality and reference, the argument of
transcendental idealism; Neo-Aristotelian ethic; Husserl and
Wittgenstein; photography; the nature of artworks."
The Face of the Other and the Trace of God contain essays on the
philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas, and how his philosophy intersects
with that of other philosophers, particularly Husserl, Kierkegaard,
Sartre, and Derrida. This collection is broadly divided into two
parts: relations with the other, and the questions of God.
The Face of the Other and the Trace of God contain essays on the
philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas, and how his philosophy intersects
with that of other philosophers, particularly Husserl, Kierkegaard,
Sartre, and Derrida. This collection is broadly divided into two
parts: relations with the other, and the questions of God.
The Unforgettable and the Unhoped For is the first English
translation of a work by Jean-Louis Chretien, one of France's
leading phenomenologists. Chretien unfolds the ideas of memory and
loss, of the immemorable, and of hope, in a manner that opens a
phenomenological path to the heart of classical thought. This line
of reflection places him in the company of Emmanuel Levinas,
Jean-Luc Marion, and Michel Henry, in attempting to join philosophy
and religion after Kant, Nietzsche, and Heidegger.
The extremities of time exceed our memory and expectation. For
philosophy, beginning with Plato, the truth of being is immemorable
and cannot be rediscovered except in passing through forgetfulness.
How are we to understand this first forgetting? Modern analyses
live from a denial of loss: everything would be unforgettable, and
is always preserved in memory.
For Christian thought, to hope against all hope and to remember
the origin are two essential acts of faith. Memory must die in
order to be reborn, in order to purify itself of all nostalgia and
become memory of the promise. Augustine and John of the Cross,
after Philo the Jew, teach us what contemporary thought has begun
to rediscover: only the Other is unforgettable, for it alone is
unhoped for.
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What is secularity? Might it yield or define a distinctive form
of reasoning? If so, would that form of reasoning belong
essentially to our modern age, or would it instead have a
considerably older lineage? And what might be the relation of that
form of reasoning, whatever its lineage, to the Christian thinking
that is often said to oppose it? In the present volume, these and
related questions are addressed by a distinguished group of
scholars working primarily within the Roman Catholic theological
tradition and from the perspectives of Continental philosophy. As a
whole, the volume constitutes a conversation among thinkers who
agree in their concerns but not necessarily their conclusions.
Taken individually, each essay concentrates on a range of
historical developments with close attention to their intellectual
and sometimes pedagogical implications. Secular reason, they argue,
is neither the antipode of Christian thought nor a stable and
well-resolved component of it. Christian thinking may engage with
secular reason as the site of profound difficulties, but on
occasion will also learn from it as a source of new
insight."Christianity and Secular Reason" contributes to the
contemporary discussion of secularity prompted especially by
Charles Taylor's book "A Secular Age." Unlike Taylor's work,
however, this collection concentrates specifically on secular
"reason" and explicitly on its relation to Christianity. In this
sense, it is closer to Michael J. Buckley's "At the Origins of
Modern Atheism" or, to a lesser degree, Louis Dupre's "Passage to
Modernity," which concern themselves with broad cultural
developments."This volume offers a variety of perspectives, some
historical, some normative/constructive, on the questions of the
relations between politics/culture/religion and the relations
between selfhood/humanity/world. The essays are, without exception,
of high quality in both scholarly-exegetical terms, and
constructive-normative ones. The writers are learned, sometimes
witty, and often interesting." --Paul Griffiths, Duke Divinity
School "This is no other volume I know of that covers just this
ground. There is a substantial literature on, for example, the
Habermas/Ratzinger exhange, and on Kant's view of the relation
between philosophy and religion, and on the twelfth century
background for thirteenth century reflection on this relation. The
merit of "Christianity and Secular Reason" is that it holds these
threads together, and others besides, in a new and fruitful way."
--John E. Hare, Yale University
Exploring the relationship between phenomenology and religion in
Levinas’s writings The philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas affirms
both the urgency of peace and the fact that peace is never finally
assured. This tension is a question of responsibility and of the
ethical relation in which that responsibility is grounded. Jeffrey
Bloechl pursues this prophetic dimension of Levinas’s
philosophy—his commitment to phenomenology and to a philosophy of
religion—to make the case for the mutual reinforcement and
intelligibility of these two threads. Levinas on the Primacy of the
Ethical traces the emergence of Levinas’s early thought in
relation to modern political philosophy, his revision of Martin
Heidegger’s existential phenomenology, the consolidation of his
mature position, his important differences with Freudian
psychoanalysis, the turn from metaphysics to language in his later
philosophy, and his complex relationship with Christian theology.
Starting with an exposition of how positive notions of religious
transcendence are already present in some of Levinas’s early
phenomenological texts, Bloechl then stakes the reverse claim: that
Levinas’s conception of God is dependent on his existential
phenomenology. Proceeding chronologically, but with frequent nods
to later developments, this book builds toward the ultimate
assertion that Levinas offers us a phenomenology of event and of
relation without appeal to any foundation, ground, or causal
principle. Only in this way is Levinas able to generate an
argument—and not merely an exhortation—for the primacy of the
ethical as he conceives it.
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