Converts to the real : Catholicism and the making of continental philosophy / Edward Baring.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Baring, Edward, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Phenomenological theology.

Catholics--Europe--Intellectual life--20th century.

Catholics.

Phenomenology.

Philosophy and religion--Europe--History--20th century.

Philosophy and religion.

Europe.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (496 pages)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Phenomenology has the strongest claim to the mantle of continental philosophy. Edward Baring shows that credit for its prodigious growth goes to a surprising group of early enthusiasts: Catholic intellectuals. Tracing debates in Europe from existentialism to speculative realism, he shows why European philosophy bears the mark of Catholicism.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction

1. The Struggle for Legitimacy: Neo-Scholasticism and Phenomenology

2. Betrayal: Husserl's Transcendental Turn and the Idealism / Realism Debate

3. An Ecumenical Atheism: Martin Heidegger's Existential Phenomenology

4. The Vital Faith of Max Scheler

5. Christian Existentialism across Europe

6. The Cartesian Thomist

7. The Secular Kierkegaard

8. The Black Nietzsche

9. Saving the Husserl Archives

10. Postwar Phenomenology

Epilogue

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Acknowledgments

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780674238985

0674238982

9780674238978

0674238974

OCLC:

1090301456