Experience and the absolute : disputed questions on the humanity of man / Jean-Yves Lacoste ; translated by Mark Raftery-Skehan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lacoste, Jean-Yves.

Series:

Perspectives in continental philosophy ; no. 40.

Perspectives in continental philosophy ; no. 40

Standardized Title:

Expérience et absolu. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Philosophical anthropology.

Philosophical theology.

Experience (Religion).

Liturgics.

Physical Description:

xi, 217 pages ; 23 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, 2004.

Summary:

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 Heideggers 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.

Contents:

Part 1 Man and His Place 5

1 Topology and Liturgy 7

1 Place 7

2 World 8

3 "Disclosure" 10

4 "Foreignness" 11

5 World and Earth 13

6 The Infinite Relation 15

7 The Dialectic of World and Earth 18

8 Liturgy as Transgression 20

2 Place and Nonplace 23

9 The Vision of Saint Benedict: Exclusion 23

10 Reclusion 26

11 Depaysement 29

12 Liturgy Prior to World and Earth 32

13 Building Dwelling Praying 34

14 Corporeality and Eschatology 37

15 From Being-There to Being-Toward 39

3 Nonexperience and Nonevent 40

16 Opening and Exposition 40

17 Dwelling at the Limit 42

18 Existing before He Who Is to Come 44

19 The Nonevent 46

20 Nonevent and the Critique of Experience 48

21 History Bracketed 49

22 Nonplace and Verification 53

4 The Absolute Future: Anticipation and Conversion 55

23 History and the Interval 55

24 Existing from the Future Onward 57

25 Consciousness and the Soul 61

26 Dialectic of Duplicity 64

27 The Liturgical Unhappiness of Consciousness 66

28 Distance and Conversion 70

29 The Relation between Ethical and Liturgical Reason as Circularity 75

5 Existence as Vigil 77

30 The Nocturnal Site of Liturgy 77

31 The Necessary and the Surplus 80

32 Care and Restlessness 82

33 Doubting Facticity Philosophically 86

34 The Hermeneutics of the Initial and the Heuristic of the Originary 88

35 Patience 90

36 Freedom at the Initial and at the Origin 93

37 World, Earth, and Kingdom 97

Part 2 Fundamental Experience 99

6 The Disparity with the Initial as a Hermeneutic Principle 101

38 Return to Questioning 101

39 Phenomenology and Liturgy: "Life" 102

40 Phenomenology and Liturgy: Facticity 104

41 Contingency and Manifestation 106

42 The Manifest Absolute 107

43 The Human and the Definitive 109

7 Hegel and the Eschaton This Side of Death 112

44 The End at the Beginning 112

45 Knowledge and Eschatology 114

46 The Definitive in Its Place 117

47 From History to Nature 120

48 Existing after History 122

49 Oblivio Mortis 126

50 The Eschaton and the Present 129

51 Religion, Mediation, and the Humanity of Man 131

52 The Salvational Meaning of the Cross 135

8 The Preeschatological Site of the Question of Man 137

53 The Next to Last 137

54 Knowledge and Inexperience 140

55 The Night 145

56 The Disoriented Consciousness 149

57 Being and Act: Elements of a Problematic 153

58 The Primal Scene 157

59 Abnegation 160

60 The Will to Powerlessness 163

9 Toward a Kenotic Treatment of the Question of Man 168

61 Being-in-the-World and Appropriation 168

62 Death and Disappropriation 169

63 Nonappropriation Prior to Death 170

64 Asceticism and Dispossession 172

65 Liturgy and Dispossession 173

66 Mad about God/God and Madness 177

67 The Humor of the Fool 180

68 Toward a Liturgical Critique of the Concept 182

69 The Minimal Man 185

70 Man in His Place: Reprise 187

71 Anthropologia Crucis 189

72 Religious Experience: A Final Critique 191

73 Perfect Joy 193.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-208) and index.

ISBN:

0823223752

0823223760

OCLC:

56324590