Is There a Sabbath for Thought? : Between Religion and Philosophy / William Desmond.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Desmond, William, Author.

Series:

Perspectives in Continental Philosophy

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (380 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2022]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Seeking to renew an ancient companionship between the philosophical and the religious, this book’s meditative chapters dwell on certain elemental experiences or happenings that keep the soul alive to the enigma of the divine. William Desmond engages the philosophical work of Pascal, Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Shestov, and Soloviev, among others, and pursues with a philosophical mindfulness what is most intimate in us, yet most universal: sleep, poverty, imagination, courage and witness, reverence, hatred and love, peace and war. Being religious has to do with that intimate universal, beyond arbitrary subjectivism and reductionist objectivism. In this book, he attempts to look at religion with a fresh and open mind, asking how philosophy might itself stand up to some of the questions posed to it by religion, not just how religion might stand up to the questions posed to it by philosophy. Desmond tries to pursue a new and different policy, one faithful to the light of this dialogue.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments

By Way of Introduction: The Intimate Universal—Between Religion and Philosophy

1 The Sleep of Finitude: On the Unease of Philosophy and Religion

2 Between Finitude and Infinity: Hegelian Reason and the Pascalian Heart

3 Religion and the Poverty of Philosophy

4 Religious Imagination and the Counterfeit Doubles of God

5 God Beyond the Whole: Between Solov’ev and Shestov

6 Caesar with the Soul of Christ: Nietzsche’s Highest Impossibility

7 The Secret Sources of Strengthening: On Courage

8 On the Betrayals of Reverence

9 Enemies: On Hatred

10 Is There a Sabbath for Thought? On Peace—Between Philosophy and Religion

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Mrz 2022)

ISBN:

0-8232-9188-X

OCLC:

1350688719