In Deference to the Other : Lonergan and Contemporary Continental Thought

In Deference to the Other brings contemporary continental thought into conversation with that of Bernard Lonergan (1904-1984), the Jesuit philosopher and theologian. This is an opportune moment to open such a dialogue: philosophers and theologians indebted to Lonergan have increasingly found themselves challenged by the insights of thinkers typically dubbed "postmodern," while postmodernists, most notably Jacques Derrida, have begun to ask the "God question." While Lonergan was not a continental philosopher, neither was he an analytic philosopher. Concerned with both epistemology and cognition, his systematic and hermeneutic-like proposals resonate with the concerns of philosophers such as Derrida, Foucault, Levinas, and Kristeva. Contributors to this volume find insight and affiliation between Lonergan's thought and contemporary continental thought in a wide-ranging work that engages the philosophical problems of authenticity, self-appropriation, ethics, and the human subject. In Deference to the Other......Page 2 Contents......Page 6 Foreword JOHN D. CAPUTO......Page 8 Introduction JIM KANARIS AND MARK J. DOORLEY......Page 16 1. Decentering Inwardness NICHOLAS PLANTS......Page 28 2. To Whom Do We Return in the Turn to the Subject? Lonergan, Derrida, and Foucault Revisited JIM KANARIS......Page 48 3. Self-Appropriation: Lonergan’s Pearl of Great Price JAMES L. MARSH......Page 68 4. Subject for the Other: Lonergan and Levinas on Being Human in Postmodernity MICHELE SARACINO......Page 80 5. Kristeva’s Horror and Lonergan’s Insight: The Psychic Structure of the Human Person and the Move to a Higher Viewpoint CHRISTINE E. JAMIESON......Page 106 6. Lonergan’s Postmodern Subject: Neither Neoscholastic Substance nor Cartesian Ego FREDERICK LAWRENCE......Page 122 7. In Response to the Other: Postmodernity and Critical Realism MARK J. DOORLEY......Page 136 8. Lonergan and the Ambiguity of Postmodern Laughter RONALD H. MCKINNEY, S.J.......Page 156 Works Cited......Page 180 Contributors......Page 190 B......Page 192 C......Page 193 D......Page 194 G......Page 195 I......Page 196 L......Page 197 N......Page 198 P......Page 199 S......Page 200 T......Page 201 W......Page 202 Annotation In Deference to the Other brings contemporary continental though into conversation with that of Bernard Lonergan (1904-1984), the Jesuit philosopher and theologian. This is an opportune moment to open such a dialogue: philosophers and theologians indebted to Lonergan have increasingly found themselves challenged by the insights of thinkers typically dubbed "postmodern," while postmodernists, most notably Jacques Derrida, have begun to ask the "God question." While Lonergan was not a continental philosopher, neither was he an analytic philosopher. Concerned with both epistemology and cognition, his systematic and hermeneutic-like proposals resonate with the concerns of philosophers such as Derrida, Foucault, Levinas, and Kristeva. Contributors to this volume find insight and affiliation between Longergan's thought and contemporary continental though in a wide-ranging work that engages the philosophical problems of authenticity, self-appropriation, ethics, and the human subject "In Deference to the Other brings contemporary continental thought into conversation with that of Bernard Lonergan (1904-1984), the Jesuit philosopher and theologian. Contributors to this volume find insight and affiliation between Lonergan's thought and contemporary continental thought in a wide-ranging work that engages the philosophical problems of authenticity, self-appropriation, ethics, and the human subject."--BOOK JACKET Edited By Jim Kanaris And Mark J. Doorley ; Foreword By John D. Caputo. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 165-173) And Index.