Experience and the Absolute: Disputed Questions on the Humanity of Man - Couverture souple

Lacoste, Jean-Yves

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0823223760 ISBN 13 : 9780823223763

Editeur : Fordham University Press, 2004

Synopsis

Does the philosophy of Martin Heidegger represent the emergence of a secular anthropology that requires religious thought to redefine the religious dimension in human existence? In this critical response, Lacoste confronts the ultimate definition of human nature, the humanity of the human. He explores that definition through an analysis of the "absolute" as a phenomenological datum.

Lacoste establishes a conception of human nature that opens possibilities for religious experience and religious identity in view of Heidegger's profound challenge. He develops a phenomenology of the liturgy, and subjects the categories of "experience," "place," and "human existence" to careful examination. Making a strong case for the affective nature of religious experience, he sides with Schleiermacher against Hegel in associating religion with affectivity rather than logic. Such affectivity, he claims, can be more rational than reason as framed in Hegelian logic.

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À propos de l'auteur

Jean-Yves Lacoste is also the author of Notes sur le temps and Le Monde et l'absence d'oeuvre.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Fordham University Press
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0823223760
• ISBN 13: 9780823223763
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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