In deference to the other : Lonergan and contemporary continental thought / edited by Jim Kanaris and Mark J. Doorley ; foreword by John D. Caputo.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kanaris, Jim, 1964-

Doorley, Mark J.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lonergan, Bernard J. F.

Physical Description:

xiii, 187 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, [2004]

Summary:

In Deference to the Other brings contemporary continental thought into conversation with that of Bernard Lonergan (1904-1984), the Jesuit philosopher and theologian. This is an opportune moment to open such a dialogue: philosophers and theologians indebted to Lonergan have increasingly found themselves challenged by the insights of thinkers typically dubbed "postmodern," while postmodernists, most notably Jacques Derrida, have begun to ask the "God question." While Lonergan was not a continental philosopher, neither was he an analytic philosopher. Concerned with both epistemology and cognition, his systematic and hermeneutic-like proposals resonate with the concerns of philosophers such as Derrida, Foucault, Levinas, and Kristeva. Contributors to this volume find insight and affiliation between Lonergan's thought and contemporary continental thought in a wide-ranging work that engages the philosophical problems of authenticity, self-appropriation, ethics, and the human subject.

Contents:

1 Decentering Inwardness / Nicholas Plants 13

2 To Whom Do We Return in the Turn to the Subject? Lonergan, Derrida, and Foucault Revisited / Jim Kanaris 33

3 Self-Appropriation: Lonergan's Pearl of Great Price / James L. Marsh 53

4 Subject for the Other: Lonergan and Levinas on Being Human in Postmodernity / Michele Saracino 65

5 Kristeva's Horror and Lonergan's Insight: The Psychic Structure of the Human Person and the Move to a Higher Viewpoint / Christine E. Jamieson 91

6 Lonergan's Postmodern Subject: Neither Neoscholastic Substance nor Cartesian Ego / Frederick Lawrence 107

7 In Response to the Other: Postmodernity and Critical Realism / Mark J. Doorley 121

8 Lonergan and the Ambiguity of Postmodern Laughter / Ronald H. McKinney, S.J. 141.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-173) and index.

ISBN:

0791462439

OCLC:

53970844