This work argues that the appropriate religious response to suspicion of its beliefs is not to try to refute or deflect them, but rather to acknowledge their force in a process of self-examination.
Are postmodern philosophy and Christian thought so diametrically opposed that 'never the twain shall meet'? Or are various postmodern philosophies, in spite of their secular provenance, open to religious appropriation? From the Christian side, it is all too easy to see postmodern philosophy as nothing but an implacable enemy, while those with ...
'This fairly small book must take its place as the best introductory study of Hegel's Phenomenology available' - "Philosophy and Phenomenological Research". 'Westphal's book is a comprehensive guide to the argument of the entire phenomenology...will repay close study by serious undergraduate and graduate students of philosophy' - "Choice".This ...
Few philosophers have devoted more than passing attention to similarities between the thought of Soren Kierkegaard, a Danish Christian, and Emmanuel Levinas, a French Jew. Here, one of philosophy of religion's most distinctive voices offers a sustained comparison. Focusing on questions surrounding otherness, transcendence, postmodernity, and the ...
Overcoming Onto-theology is a stunning collection of essays by Merold Westphal, one of America's leading continental philosophers of religion, in which Westphal carefully explores the nature and the structure of a postmodern Christian philosophy. Written with characteristic clarity and charm, Westphal offers masterful studies of Heidegger's early ...
This collection of essays reflects the healthy pluralism of contemporary Christian philosophy. Using a wide variety of approaches, the contributors are unified by their conviction that religious knowledge is possible and that to undertand it we must look at the issues in light of post-Enlightenment epistemological perspectives.
Becoming a Self provides a reader's guide to the book often taken to be Soren Kierkegaard's most important contribution to philosophy and theology. Merold Westphal includes the portion of Kierkegaard's text that develops his infamous thesis that "truth is subjectivity" and offers a dose reading of the entire text of Postscript. He also locates the ...
Placed in dialogue with Buber, Derrida, Freud, Gadamer, Habermas, Heidegger, Irigaray, Kristeva, Levinas, Sartre, and Wittgenstein, Soren Kierkegaard emerges as a vital participant in some of the liveliest controversies in modern philosophy. While some of the essays included here establish Kierkegaard's relevance to the postmodern critique of ...
"This fairly small book must take its place as the best introductory study of Hegel's Phenomenology available.- Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. "Westphal's book is a comprehensive guide to the argument of the entire phenomenology...will repay close study by serious undergraduate and graduate students of philosophy." - "Choice". This ...
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