Experience and the Absolute: Disputed Questions on the Humanity of Man (Perspectives in Continental Philosophy) - Softcover

Lacoste, Jean-Yves

 
9780823223763: Experience and the Absolute: Disputed Questions on the Humanity of Man (Perspectives in Continental Philosophy)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0823223760 ISBN 13: 9780823223763
Publisher: Fordham University Press, 2004

Synopsis

Does the philosophy of Martin Heidegger represent the emergence of a secular anthropology that requires religious thought to redefine the religious dimension in human existence? In this critical response, Lacoste confronts the ultimate definition of human nature, the humanity of the human. He explores that definition through an analysis of the “absolute” as a phenomenological datum.
Lacoste establishes a conception of human nature that opens possibilities for religious experience and religious identity in view of Heidegger’s profound challenge. He develops a phenomenology of the liturgy, and subjects the categories of “experience,” “place,” and “human existence” to careful examination. Making a strong case for the affective nature of religious experience, he sides with Schleiermacher against Hegel in associating religion with affectivity rather than logic. Such affectivity, he claims, can be more rational than reason as framed in Hegelian logic.

"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.

About the Author

Jean-Yves Lacoste is also the author of Notes sur le temps and Le Monde et l'absence d'oeuvre.

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.

Publisher
Fordham University Press
Publication date
2004
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0823223760
ISBN 13 
9780823223763
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
256

Other Popular Editions of the Same Title

9780823223756: Experience and the Absolute: Disputed Questions on the Humanity of Man: 40 (Perspectives in Continental Philosophy)

Featured Edition

ISBN 10:  0823223752 ISBN 13:  9780823223756
Publisher: Fordham University Press, 2004
Hardcover