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Transforming Philosophy and Religion
. Ed(S): Wirzba, Norman; Benson, Bruce Ellis
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Paperback. Describes how various expressions of philosophy are transformed by the discipline of love. While it has been fairly common for philosophers to think about love, This work features 16 essays that go beyond the commonplace to show how philosophy is implicated in the ways of love. Editor(s): Wirzba, Norman; Benson, Bruce Ellis. Series: Indiana Series in the Philosophy of Religion. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HP; HRAB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 390.
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 ... Read more
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Series
Indiana Series in the Philosophy of Religion
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Bloomington, IN, United States
ISBN
9780253219589
SKU
V9780253219589
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About . Ed(S): Wirzba, Norman; Benson, Bruce Ellis
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 ... Read more
Reviews for Transforming Philosophy and Religion
Wirzba and Benson's astonishingly rich, scholarly compilation of essays from professors of philosophy and religion/religious studies brings a novel approach to the intersection of Christianity and Western philosophy. Rather than being a philosophy about love, this book shows that love provides the essential framework through which philosophy and theology both operate and manifest. If philosophy has as its goal an ... Read more