In praise of heteronomy : making room for relevation / Merold Westphal.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Westphal, Merold, author.

Series:

Indiana series in the philosophy of religion.

Indiana series in the philosophy of religion

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religion--Philosophy.

Religion.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxvi, 241 pages)

Place of Publication:

Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2017]

Summary:

Recognizing the essential heteronomy of postmodern philosophy of religion, Merold Westphal argues against the assumption that human reason is universal, neutral, and devoid of presupposition. Instead, Westphal contends that any philosophy is a matter of faith and the philosophical encounter with theology arises from the very act of thinking. Relying on the work of Spinoza, Kant, and Hegel, Westphal discovers that their theologies render them mutually incompatible and their claims to be the voice of autonomous and universal reason look dubious. Westphal grapples with this plural nature of human thought in the philosophy of religion and he forwards the idea that any appeal to the divine must rest on a historical and phenomenological analysis.

Contents:

Preface

1. Executive and legislative autonomy

2. Spinoza's theology

3. Spinoza's hermeneutics

4. Kant's theology

5. Kant's hermeneutics I

6. Kant's hermeneutics II

7. Hegel's theology I

8. Hegel's theology II

9. Hegel's hermeneutics

10. The inevitability of heteronomy

11. Heteronomy as freedom.

Notes:

Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 14, 2017).

ISBN:

9780253026613

025302661X

OCLC:

990080061