Transforming Philosophy and Religion: Love's WisdomNorman 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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... humanity, the world, and God.6 Of course, this is a curious state of affairs. For if such a thesis is correct, it would seem that philosophers—in order to be authentic and at their best— must first be lovers before they can truly ...
... human life. On the basis of a reading of the biblical creation story and the Song of Songs, Ricoeur understands love to be at the heart of the created world. It opens up the space where we can meet each other and join together in ...
... human/divine relationship. Does the practice of love change the character of our relationships, and if so, how? Here questions about our naming of God, of our relationship to God, and of God's relationship to the world come to the fore ...
... human collectivities. For Zizek, love is affirming the other on behalf of the other. What Christianity accomplishes—through Paul— is the movement from desire to love. Yet for Zizek, Christianity can only complete itself by following its ...
... humanity itself runs the risk of being absorbed into the manufactured and arbitrary world of economic efficiency and personal style. What is it to be a human being in a world where the options to change or reconstruct people and infants ...
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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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