Interpreting Neville / edited by J. Harley Chapman and Nancy K. Frankenberry.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Chapman, J. Harley, 1940-

Frankenberry, Nancy, 1947-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Neville, Robert C.

Physical Description:

xi, 352 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, [1999]

Summary:

Interpreting Neville provides the first book-length treatment of the thought of Robert Cummings Neville, one of the most important and wide-ranging scholars working across the fields of philosophy, theology, and comparative studies today. Contributors assess the systematic structure and methodological unity of Neville's trilogy Axiology of Thinking, provide a postmodern contextualization of Neville's philosophy, and evaluate the critical relation of Neville to the history of Western philosophy. Metaphysical questions crucial to Neville's project are critiqued from different vantage points, theological problems are examined, and the comparative issues outstanding in Neville's understanding of Chinese philosophy are assessed. Enhancing the book is a rich concluding essay written by Neville himself in response to each author.

Contents:

Part I Neville's Methodology

Chapter 1 Thinking Axiologically / George Allan 3

Chapter 2 Re-reading Neville: A Postmodern Perspective / Edith Wyschogrod 27

Part II Neville and Western Philosophy

Chapter 3 Neville's Use of Plato / Patricia Cook 45

Chapter 4 Neville and Pragmatism: Toward Ongoing Dialogue / Sandra B. Rosenthal 59

Chapter 5 Ethics, Metaphysics, and the Use of Comparative Cultural Traditions in the Philosophy of Robert Neville / George R. Lucas, Jr. 77

Chapter 6 On the Very Idea of Symbolic Meaning / Nancy K. Frankenberry 93

Chapter 7 Neville's Self in Time and Eternity / J. Harley Chapman 111

Part III Metaphysical Questions

Chapter 8 Neville's 'Naturalism' and the Location of God / Robert S. Corrington 127

Chapter 9 Being, Nonbeing, and Creation Ex Nihilo / Carl G. Vaught 147

Chapter 10 Creation and Concrescence / Lewis S. Ford 165

Part IV Theological Problems

Chapter 11 Knowing the Mystery of God: Neville and Apophatic Theology / Delwin Brown 189

Chapter 12 Neville's Theology: A Fiminist and Process Dialogue / Marjorie Hewitt Suchocki 205

Chapter 13 Neville's Theology of Creation, Covenant, and Trinity / Hermann Deuser 223

Part V Comparative Issues

Chapter 14 On Neville's Understanding of Chinese Philosophy: Ontology of Wu, Cosmology of Yi, and Normalogy of Li / Chung-ying Cheng 247

Chapter 15 The Culture of Metaphysics: On Saving Neville's Project (from Neville) / David L., Hall 271

Part VI Robert Neville Replies

Chapter 16 Responding to My Critics / Robert Cummings Neville 291

Publications of Robert Cummings Neville 329.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-337) and index.

ISBN:

0791441954

0791441962

OCLC:

39625265