..". a profoundly stimulating and satisfying piece of philosophy.... It is a book from which one really can learn something worthwhile." --Idealistic Studies
..". exceptionally well-written philosophy of religion... " --Mentalities
..". a most impressive phenomenology of religion... a splendid achievement... " --The Reformed Theological Review
..". challenging to scholars... interesting to general audiences." --International Journal for Philosophy of Religion
..". equal in clarity of thought and comprehensiveness of scope.... profoundly original." --The Reformed...
..". a profoundly stimulating and satisfying piece of philosophy.... It is a book from which one really can learn something worthwhile." --Idealist...
Martin J. Matustik Merold Westphal Martin J. Matusik
"This volume represents a fine assessment of the continuing applicability of Kierkegaard's thought for the 21st century."--The Reader's Review
"Matustik and Westphal have set some agile minds to the task of drawing out the threads of Kierkegaard's influence on postmodern and contemporary philosophy, from gender to politics and from Buber to Derrida." --Choice
..". Usefully and effectively establishes Kierkegaard as a living presence in contemporary thought. It will help students of Kierkegaard attend to aspects of his thought that have eluded their attention, and it will...
"This volume represents a fine assessment of the continuing applicability of Kierkegaard's thought for the 21st century."--The Reader's Review
"This fairly small book must take its place as the best introductory study of Hegel's Phenomenology available." --Philosophy and Phenomenological Research
"Westphal's book is a comprehensive guide to the argument of the entire phenomenology.... will repay close study by serious undergraduate and graduate students of philosophy." --Choice
This detailed interpretation of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit seeks to show that the unity of this classic work may be found in the integration of its transcendental and sociological-historical themes.
"This fairly small book must take its place as the best introductory study of Hegel's Phenomenology available." --Philosophy and Phenomenological R...
Are postmodern philosophy and Christian thought so diametrically opposed that "never the twain shall meet"? Or are various postmodern philosophies, in spite of their secular provenance, open to religious appropriation? These thirteen lively, original essays awaken secular postmodernisms and various modes of Christian thinking from their ideological complacency. An open space for passionate dialogue emerges from conversations that powerfully engage both intellectual and religious points of view.
Are postmodern philosophy and Christian thought so diametrically opposed that "never the twain shall meet"? Or are various postmodern philosophies,...
The question of the transcendence of God has traditionally been thought in terms of the difference between pantheism, which affirms that God is wholly "within" the world, and theism, which affirms that God is both "within" and "outside" the world, both immanent and transcendent. Against Heidegger's critique of onto-theology and the general postmodern concern for respecting and preserving the difference of the other, Merold Westphal seeks to rethink divine transcendence in relation to modes of human self-transcendence. Touching upon Spinoza, Hegel, Augustine, Pseudo-Dionysius, Aquinas,...
The question of the transcendence of God has traditionally been thought in terms of the difference between pantheism, which affirms that God is who...
The introduction by Merold Westphal sets the scene: Two books, two visions of philosophy, two friends and sometimes colleagues.... Modernity and Its Discontents is a debate between Caputo and Marsh in which each upheld their opposing philosphical positions by critical modernism and post-modernism. The book opens with a critique of each debater of the other's previous work. With its passionate point-counterpoint form, the book recalls the philosphical dialogues of classical times, but the writing style remains lucid and uncluttered. Taking the failure of Englightenment ideals as their common...
The introduction by Merold Westphal sets the scene: Two books, two visions of philosophy, two friends and sometimes colleagues.... Modernity and Its D...
John E. Smith has contributed to contemporary philosophy in primarily four distinct capacities; first, as a philosopher of religion and God; second, as an indefatigable defender of philosophical reflection in its classical sense ( a sense inclusive of, but not limited to, metaphysics); third, as a participant in the reconstruction of experience and reason so boldly inaugurated by Hegel then redically transformed by the classical American pragmatists, and significantly augmented by such thinkers as Josiah Royce, william Earnest Hocking, and Alfred North Whitehead; fourth, as an interpreter of...
John E. Smith has contributed to contemporary philosophy in primarily four distinct capacities; first, as a philosopher of religion and God; second, a...
"An illuminating and powerful reading of three of the most important contemporary professedly antireligious thinkers... stinging critiques of Freud, Marx, and Nietzsche."-C. Stephen Evans, Society of Christian Philosophers
"An illuminating and powerful reading of three of the most important contemporary professedly antireligious thinkers... stinging critiques of Freud, M...
