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Negative Certainties
Jean-Luc Marion; Translated by Stephen E. Lewis
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R927
Discovery Miles 9 270
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Ships in 9 - 15 working days
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Now in paperback, Jean-Luc Marion's groundbreaking philosophy of
human uncertainty. In Negative Certainties, renowned philosopher
Jean-Luc Marion challenges some of the most fundamental assumptions
we have developed about knowledge: that it is categorical,
predicative, and positive. Following Descartes, Kant, and
Heidegger, he looks toward our finitude and the limits of our
reason. He asks an astonishingly simple—but profoundly
provocative—question in order to open up an entirely new way of
thinking about knowledge: Isn’t our uncertainty, our finitude,
and rational limitations, one of the few things we can be certain
about? Marion shows how the assumption of knowledge as positive
demands a reductive epistemology that disregards immeasurable or
disorderly phenomena. He shows that we have experiences every day
that have no identifiable causes or predictable reasons and that
these constitute a very real knowledge—a knowledge of the limits
of what can be known. Establishing this “negative certainty,”
Marion applies it to four aporias, or issues of certain
uncertainty: the definition of man; the nature of God; the
unconditionality of the gift; and the unpredictability of events.
Translated for the first time into English, Negative Certainties is
an invigorating work of epistemological inquiry that will take a
central place in Marion’s oeuvre.
A leading philosopher and theologian, Jean-Louis Chretien uses
poetry and painting to explore a theme that runs through all of his
work: how human life is shaped by the experience of call and
response. For Chretien, we live by responding to the call of
experience with words, gestures, expressions, and silence. In
luminous meditations on Rembrandt, Delacroix, Manet, Verlaine,
Keats, and other artists, Chretien shows how "talking hands of
painters" and the "secretly lucid" voices of poets confront the
finitude of the human body. Hand to Hand is a deeply cultured
renewal of art in all its provocative, transforming, spiritual
presence.
A leading philosopher and theologian, Jean-Louis Chretien uses
poetry and painting to explore a theme that runs through all of his
work: how human life is shaped by the experience of call and
response. For Chretien, we live by responding to the call of
experience with words, gestures, expressions, and silence. In
luminous meditations on Rembrandt, Delacroix, Manet, Verlaine,
Keats, and other artists, Chretien shows how "talking hands of
painters" and the "secretly lucid" voices of poets confront the
finitude of the human body. Hand to Hand is a deeply cultured
renewal of art in all its provocative, transforming, spiritual
presence.
A timely new work by one of France's premier philosophers, A Brief
Apology for a Catholic Moment offers insight into what "catholic"
truly means. In this short, accessible book, Jean-Luc Marion braids
the sense of catholic as all-embracing and universal into
conversation about what it is to be Catholic in the present moment.
A Brief Apology for a Catholic Moment tackles complex issues
surrounding church-state separation and addresses a larger Catholic
audience that transcends national boundaries, social identities,
and linguistic differences. Marion insists that Catholic
universalism, with its core of communion and community, is not an
outmoded worldview, but rather an outlook that has the potential to
counter the positivist rationality and nihilism at the core of our
current political moment, and can help us address questions
surrounding liberalism and religion and what is often presented as
tension between "Islam and the West." As an inviting and
sophisticated Catholic take on current political and social
realities-realities that are not confined to France alone-A Brief
Apology for a Catholic Moment is a valuable contribution to a
larger conversation.
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Event and Time (Paperback)
Claude Romano; Translated by Stephen E. Lewis
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R1,001
Discovery Miles 10 010
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Contemporary philosophy, from Kant through Bergson and Husserl to
Heidegger, has assumed that time must be conceived as a fundamental
determination of the subject: Time is not first in things but
arises from actions, attitudes, or comportments through which a
subject temporalizes mtime, expecting or remembering, anticipating
the future or making a decision.
Event and Time traces the genesis of this thesis through detailed,
rigorous analyses of the philosophy of time in Plato, Aristotle,
and Augustine, ultimately showing that, in the development of
metaphysics, the understanding of the temporal phenomenon as an
inner-temporal phenomenon has made possible time's
subjectivization.
The book goes on to argue that time is in fact not thinkable
according to metaphysical subjectivity. Instead, the guiding thread
for the analysis of time must shift to the eventual hermeneutics of
the human being, first developed in Event and World, and now
deepened and completed in Event and Time. Romano's diptych makes a
compelling, rigorous, and original philosophical contribution to
the thinking of the event
A timely new work by one of France's premier philosophers, A Brief
Apology for a Catholic Moment offers insight into what "catholic"
truly means. In this short, accessible book, Jean-Luc Marion braids
the sense of catholic as all-embracing and universal into
conversation about what it is to be Catholic in the present moment.
A Brief Apology for a Catholic Moment tackles complex issues
surrounding church-state separation and addresses a larger Catholic
audience that transcends national boundaries, social identities,
and linguistic differences. Marion insists that Catholic
universalism, with its core of communion and community, is not an
outmoded worldview, but rather an outlook that has the potential to
counter the positivist rationality and nihilism at the core of our
current political moment, and can help us address questions
surrounding liberalism and religion and what is often presented as
tension between "Islam and the West." As an inviting and
sophisticated Catholic take on current political and social
realities-realities that are not confined to France alone-A Brief
Apology for a Catholic Moment is a valuable contribution to a
larger conversation.
Honorable Mention for the 2019 Thomas McGann Book Prize from the
Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies Mexico's National
Indigenist Institute (INI) was at the vanguard of hemispheric
indigenismo from 1951 through the mid-1970s, thanks to the
innovative development projects that were first introduced at its
pilot Tseltal-Tsotsil Coordinating Center in highland Chiapas. This
book traces how indigenista innovation gave way to stagnation as
local opposition, shifting national priorities, and waning
financial support took their toll. After 1970 indigenismo may have
served the populist aims of President Luis Echeverria, but Mexican
anthropologists, indigenistas, and indigenous people themselves
increasingly challenged INI theory and practice and rendered them
obsolete.
In seven essays that draw from metaphysics, phenomenology,
literature, Christological theology, and Biblical exegesis, Marion
sketches several prolegomena to a future fuller thinking and saying
of love's paradoxical reasons, exploring evil, freedom,
bedazzlement, and the loving gaze; crisis, absence, and knowing
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