Transforming Philosophy and Religion: Love's Wisdom

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Norman Wirzba, Bruce Ellis Benson
Indiana University Press, 07.05.2008 - 272 Seiten

Norman Wirzba, Bruce Ellis Benson, and an international group of philosophers and theologians describe how various expressions of philosophy are transformed by the discipline of love. What is at stake is how philosophy colors and shapes the way we receive and engage each other, our world, and God. Focusing primarily on the Continental tradition of philosophy of religion, the work presented in this volume engages thinkers such as St. Paul, Meister Eckhart, Kierkegaard, Husserl, Heidegger, Ricoeur, Derrida, Marion, Zizek, Irigaray, and Michele Le Doeuff. Emerging from the book is a complex definition of the wisdom of love which challenges how we think about nature, social justice, faith, gender, creation, medicine, politics, and ethics.

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Introduction
1
PART 1 The Nature of the Quest
13
1 The Primacy of Love
15
2 The Economies of Knowledge and Love in Paul
28
On the Complexity of a Life
42
PART 2 Justice
61
Ricoeurs Reading of the Song of Songs
63
5 Paul Ricoeur and the Possibility of Just Love
73
9 Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder
142
10 Creatio Ex Amore
155
Zizek and the Christian Legacy
171
12 Love as a Declaration of War? On the Absolute Character ofLove in JeanLuc Marions Phenomenology of Eros
185
PART 4 Rethinking Humanity
199
On the Wisdom of Love
201
An Irigarayan Reading
227
Toward a Kierkegaardian Bioethic
239

A Kantian Defense of Kierkegaardian Christian Unconditional Love
84
A QuasiApostolic carte postale on Love in ItselfIf There Is Such a Thing
103
PART 3 The Sacred
119
Reflections on an Agapic Agnosticism
121
List of Contributors
257
Index
259
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Autoren-Profil (2008)

Norman Wirzba is Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Philosophy Department at Georgetown College. He is author of The Paradise of God: Renewing Religion in an Ecological Age and editor (with Bruce Ellis Benson) of The Phenomenology of Prayer.

Bruce Ellis Benson is Associate Professor and Chair of the Philosophy Department at Wheaton College. He is author of Pious Nietzsche (IUP, 2007). He is editor (with Kevin Vanhoozer and James K. A. Smith) of Hermeneutics at the Crossroads (IUP, 2006).

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