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Postmodernity's Transcending: Devaluing God (Faith in Reason) - Softcover

Hemming, Laurence Paul

 
9780268031022: Postmodernity's Transcending: Devaluing God (Faith in Reason)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0268031029 ISBN 13: 9780268031022
Verlag: UNIV OF NOTRE DAME, 2006

Inhaltsangabe

In Postmodernity's Transcending: Devaluing God, Laurence Paul Hemming grapples with the philosophical weakness that characterizes postmodern theory, its privileging of the visual, and its reductive description of the self. He offers a profound challenge to many theologians and philosophers currently articulating questions concerning God, value, and the supposed "nihilism" of the postmodern situation. He does this by examining the origin and trajectory of the aesthetic sublime, beloved of postmodern theologians, philosophers, and theorists of art.
Hemming's work undertakes on one hand a history of the concept of the sublime; on the other, it explores the limits of theological thinking, where theology is understood either as a practice arising from faith or from thinking alone. By examining concepts like soul, experience, analogy, and truth, Hemming provokes contemporary Christian theology to a more serious engagement with philosophy.
Hemming gives an authoritative genealogy of the predominance of the visual, beginning with the Presocratics and ending in the present. He examines the confrontation with God and the gods to be found in Protagoras, Longinus, Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, Hegel, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Zizek, and Derrida, and, in the process, offers innovative readings of these thinkers. A highly original study, Postmodernity's Transcending: Devaluing God will stimulate considerable discussion about postmodernity, representation, and subjectivity and, in particular, philosophical and theological discussions of the sublime and transcendence.

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Laurence Paul Hemming is Dean of Research for Heythrop College, University of London.

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Verlag
UNIV OF NOTRE DAME
Erscheinungsdatum
2006
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0268031029
ISBN 13 
9780268031022
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
269
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