Philosophy and the Turn to Religion Hent de Vries.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vries, Hent de.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religionsphilosophie.

Godsdienst.

Filosofie.

Philosophy and religion.

Philosophie et religion--Histoire.

Philosophie et religion.

Philosophy and religion--History.

Genre:

History.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 online resource (xviii, 475 pages))

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Johns Hopkins University Press

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Originally published in 1999. If religion once seemed to have played out its role in the intellectual and political history of Western secular modernity, it has now returned with a vengeance. In Philosophy and the Turn to Religion, Hent de Vries argues that a turn to religion discernible in recent philosophy anticipates and accompanies this development in the contemporary world. Though the book reaches back to Immanuel Kant, Martin Heidegger, and earlier, it takes its inspiration from the tradition of French phenomenology, notably Emmanuel Levinas, Jean-Luc Marion, and, especially, Jacques Derrida. Tracing how Derrida probes the discourse on religion, its metaphysical presuppositions, and its transformations, de Vries shows how this author consistently foregrounds the unexpected alliances between a radical interrogation of the history of Western philosophy and the religious inheritance from which that philosophy has increasingly sought to set itself apart.De Vries goes beyond formal analogies between the textual practices of deconstruction and so-called negative theology to address the necessity for a philosophical thinking that situates itself at once close to and at the farthest remove from traditional manifestations of the religious and the theological. This paradox is captured in the phrase adieu (à dieu), borrowed from Levinas, which signals at once a turn toward and a leave-taking from God—and which also gestures toward and departs from the other of this divine other, the possibility of radical evil. Only by confronting such uncanny and difficult figures, de Vries claims, can one begin to think and act upon the ethical and political imperatives of our day.

Contents:

Revealing Revelations

Two Misreadings

Mikel Dufrenne's Plea for a Nontheological Philosophy

Jean-Luc Marion's Heterology of Donation

The Example Par Excellence

Hypertheology

The Unavoidable

Yet Another "Non-Theo-Anthropological Otherness"

Thearchy and Beyond

The Movement Upward

Angelus Silesius's uber

Pseudo-Dionysius's hyper

Emmanuel Levinas's autrement

Jean-Luc Marion's Analogy of Hierarchy

The Affirmative First

The Diacritical Moment of Prayer

Analytical Confirmations

Formal Indications

Heidegger and Insubordination

Shortcuts

Reading St. Paul Methodically

Eschatology, the kaipos, and the [pi]apovsia

"As Though It Were Not"

Formal Indication: The Very Idea

Fiat Flux

On Becoming a Mystery to Oneself

"Religion qua Religion": Heidegger's Humanism

Transcendental Historicity

The Generous Repetition

Save the Name

The Impossibility of Possibility

The Death of the Other

The Aporetic as Such

Heidegger's Possibilism

Virtual Debates

The Kenosis of Discourse

Angelus Silesius's Cherubinic Wanderer

Save ... the Name

Revealing Revelations Once More

The Confessional Mode

Apocalyptics and Enlightenment

Idolatry and Hyperphysics

Kant and Kafka

The Revelation of John and the Ends of Philosophy

Speech Tact

Vigilance and the Ellipses of Enlightenment.

Notes:

Originally published as Johns Hopkins Press in 1999

Open access edition supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities / Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program.

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ISBN:

0-8018-5994-8

1-4214-3739-2

OCLC:

1135395742

Access Restriction:

Unrestricted online access.