Saintly influence : Edith Wyschogrod and the possibilities of philosophy of religion / edited by Eric Boynton and Martin Kavka.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wyschogrod, Edith.

Boynton, Eric.

Kavka, Martin.

Series:

Perspectives in continental philosophy.

Perspectives in Continental philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wyschogrod, Edith.

Religion--Philosophy.

Religion.

Continental philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (343 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, 2009.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Since the publication of her first book, Emmanuel Levinas: The Problem of Ethical Metaphysics, in 1974-the first book about Levinas published in English-Edith Wyschogrod has been at the forefront of the fields of Continental philosophy and philosophy of religion. Her work has crossed many disciplinary boundaries, making peregrinations from phenomenology and moral philosophy to historiography, the history of religions (both Western and non-Western), aesthetics, and the philosophy of biology. In all of these discourses, she has sought to cultivate an awareness of how the self is situated and influenced, as well as the ways in which a self can influence others.In this volume, twelve scholars examine and display the influence of Wyschogrod's work in essays that take up the thematics of influence in a variety of contexts: Christian theology, the saintly behavior of the villagers of Le Chambon sur Lignon, the texts of the medieval Jewish mystic Abraham Abulafia, the philosophies of Levinas, Derrida, and Benjamin, the practice of intellectual history, the cultural memory of the New Testament, and pedagogy.In response, Wyschogrod shows how her interlocutors have brought to light her multiple authorial personae and have thus marked the ambiguity of selfhood, its position at the nexus of being influenced by and influencing others.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Introduction

The Uncertainty Principle

The Impossible Possibility of Ethics

The Empty Suitcase as Rainbow

Hosting the Stranger and the Pilgrim

‘‘God,’’ Gods, God

The Name of God in Levinas’s Philosophy

Kenotic Overflow and Temporal Transcendence

Tribute to Derrida

Hearing the Voices of the Dead

Memory and Violence, or Genealogies of Remembering

The Historian and the Messianic ‘‘Now’’

Saints and the Heterological Historian

An Exercise in Upbuilding

Notes

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9786612699092

9780823235612

0823235610

9781282699090

1282699091

9780823238187

0823238180

9780823230891

0823230899

OCLC:

647876483