Gratia non tollit naturam : technologies of the self and the Catholic constitution of time and space / Philipp W. Rosemann.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rosemann, Philipp W., author.

Contributor:

Lehrberger, James, 1943- writer of introduction.

University of Dallas, host institution, issuing body.

Series:

University of Dallas Aquinas lectures

University of Dallas Aquinas Lectures ; 2024

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984.

Foucault, Michel.

Benedict XVI, Pope, 1927-2022.

Benedict.

Catholic Church and philosophy.

Space and time.

Philosophy, Modern.

Physical Description:

[viii], 133 pages ; 18 cm.

Place of Publication:

South Bend, Indiana : St Augustine's Press, [2025]

Language Note:

In English.

Biography/History:

Philipp W. Rosemann holds the Cottrill-Rolfes Chair in Catholic Studies at the University of Kentucky. He is an elected member of the Royal Irish Academy. James Lehrberger, OCist, is associate professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Dallas.--from back cover.

Summary:

"In this lecture, Philipp Rosemann works to articulate the structures of Catholic existence in terms adapted from contemporary philosophy. Drawing on the last works of Michel Foucault, Rosemann focuses on the liturgy as a 'technology of the self.' The connection between Foucault and the liturgy may seem far-fetched, but two facts suggest its fruitfulness. First, scholars now speak of a 'Christian turn' in the late Foucault. Second, one of the leading liturgists of our time, Joseph Ratzinger, incorporated crucial insights from modern philosophy into his liturgical theology. In dialogue with Foucault and Ratzinger, Rosemann delineates the specific mode of existence of the 'liturgical subject,' and explores how time and space are constituted liturgically. The Thomistic adage gratia non tollit naturam, he concludes, distills into a few words the relation of the liturgical subject to the cosmos. The University of Dallas Aquinas Lecture for 2024, Gratia non tollit naturam, is published here with a response by Father James Lehrberger, OCist."--from the back cover.

Contents:

Note

Introduction: Despoiling the Postmodern Egyptian / James Lehrberger, OCist

Our Contemporary Predicament: Introduction: Gender trouble ; How did we get here? ; Foucault: From the "Empirico-Transcendental Doublet" to Technologies of the Self ; Lessons from Foucault for Catholic thought ; An objection

Christian Technologies of the Self: The "Liturgical Subject" ; The Liturgy and Speech that is Action ; Putting on Christ ; The Temporality of the Liturgical Subject

The Constitution of Catholic Time and Space: Catholic Time among the Modes of Temporal Existence ; Catholic Space among the Modes of Spatial Existence

Conclusion.

Notes:

"This volume is the fruit of the forty-second annual Aquinas Lecture at the University of Dallas, hosted by the Department of Philosophy and delivered by Philipp Rosemann, our former colleague, on January 29, 2024."--from Note, page vii.

ISBN:

9781587319044

1587319047

OCLC:

1520209268