Against innocence : Gillian Rose's reception and gift of faith / Andrew Shanks ; [with a foreword by Giles Fraser].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shanks, Andrew.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rose, Gillian.

Philosophers--England--Biography.

Philosophers.

England.

Transcendence (Philosophy).

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xiii, 203 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

London : SCM Press, 2008.

Summary:

Gillian Rose (1947-95) was arguably the most original and significant recent philosopher of the Continental tradition in the English-speaking world. Originally from a secular Jewish background, her thought evolved towards deeper sympathy for both Jewish and Christian religious tradition. And she chose to be baptized on her deathbed. Struck down by cancer in the prime of her career, she is known for her lyrical memoir Love's Work, written during her final illness. But she was also a notable critic of prevalent philosophic and theological fashions: postmodernism, 'Holocaust piety', Radical Orthodoxy. This is the first systematic study of Rose's profound, often difficult, but always thought-provoking work as a whole. Starting from her baptism, it is an attempt to interpret that final commitment of faith in the light of her earlier thought. Above all: her testimony to the demands of the 'broken middle', where thinking is most pulled apart but also most alive.

Contents:

1 A Deathbed Baptism 1

2 Against 'Holocaust Piety' 14

3 The 'Question of Law' 30

4 'Thinking the Absolute' 41

5 Against Modern 'Gnosticism' 98

6 The Threefold Moral of the Disaster 108

7 Against 'Holy Middles' in General 141

8 Unwrapping the Gift 166.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 194-196) and index.

ISBN:

0334041368

9780334041368

OCLC:

226303382