The Divine in Husserl and Other Explorations

ISBN-13: 9781402089107 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 170 str.

Angela Ales Bello

Opis

In the first part of The Divine in Husserl and Other Explorations a description is provided of Husserl s method in order to explain how he deals with the question of God from a philosophical perspective. The results from this investigation are compared with the main contributions of the philosophers of the past. The second part focuses on the theme of religion as developed by Husserl in order to grasp the meaning of religious lived-experiences. Through an archeological excavation Husserl teaches us how to go to the bottom of the sacred and the divine in order to pinpoint their features and to comprehend their religious configurations in history. In the third part one can find the application of husserlian hyletics and noetics to the field of the archaic sacred and of the different religious experiences. Some particular themes are treated such as ecstasy, contemplation, incarnation, and the relationship between the human being and the God from a philosophical and a religious point of view."

Spis treści

Table of Contents. Introduction. PART 1. THINKING GOD. 1.1. Phenomenology as a Philosophy sui generis. 1.1.1 The Phenomenological Method. 1.1.2 The Analysis of Lived-Experiences: Immanence and Transcendence. 1.1.3 Phenomenological Reductions: The Way of Psychology and the Cartesian Way. 1.1.4 Phenomenology’s Approach to Anthropology. 1.2 Husserl's Question of God as a Philosophical Question. 1.2.1 The Objective Way to God. 1.2.2 The Subjective Way to God. 1.2.3 The Intersubjective Way to God. 1.2.4 Hyle and Telos: The Way to God through Hyletics. 1.2.5 The Ethical Way. PART 2. BELIEVING IN GOD. 2.1 The Husserlian Approach to Religion. 2.1.1 Philosophy and Religion 2.1.2 A 'Mystical' Way? 2.1.3 Christ and Christianity. 2.1.4 Theology and Faith. 2.2 Religion as the Object of Phenomenological Investigation. 2.2.1 Analysis of Religious Phenomena. 2.2.2 Phenomenological Archeology of the Scared. 2.2.3 Phenomenological Archeology of the Religious. 2.2.4 Religion and Religions. PART 3. SOME EXPLORATIONS IN THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF RELIGION. 3.1 Examples of Archeological Excavations. 3.1.1 Ritual Objects in Archaic Sacrality. 3.1.2 The Goddess in Archaic Sacrality. 3.2. Ecstasy and Contemplation in Various Religious Experiences. 3.2.1 Ecstasy in Shamanism. 3.2.2 Contemplation in Hinduism. 3.2.3 Christian Mysticism. The Phenomenological and Mystical Hyletic. 3.2.4 Mystical Union and Contemplation in Sufism. 3.3. God as 'Third' or as 'You'? Comparing Philosophy and Religion. 3.3.1 The 'Third' from an Anthropological Perspective. 3.3. 2The Divine as 'You' and as 'Third'. What is the Divine? 3.3.3 'You' and the 'Third': Religions Facing One Another. 3.3.4 Thinking the 'Third' Philosophically. Conclusion.

Blurb

Today, Western thought may be characterized mainly by two temptations. On one hand, greater importance is attributed to reason and, on the other hand, there appears more and more a tendency to renounce respond to the most important questions, among which we find the question of God. This produces a double result: fideism or atheism.

Edmund Husserl was able to go beyond this contraposition, digging inside human interiority to grasp the sense of human operations that lead to transcendence.

Angela Ales Bello, in the first part of her book, The Divine in Husserl and Other Explorations, provides a description of Husserl’s method in order to explain how he deals with the question of God from a philosophical perspective. The results from this investigation are compared with the main contributions of the philosophers of the past.

The second part focuses on the theme of religion as developed by Husserl in order to grasp the meaning of religious lived-experiences. Through an archeological excavation Husserl teaches us how to go to the bottom of the sacred and the divine in order to pinpoint their features and to comprehend their religious configurations in history.

In the third part one can find the application of husserlian hyletics and noetics to the field of the archaic sacred and of the different religious experiences. There are treated some particular themes as ecstasy, contemplation, incarnation, and the relationship between the human being and the God from a philosophical and a religious point of view.