Is There a Sabbath for Thought?: Between Religion and Philosophy (Perspectives in Continental Philosophy) (NO. 45)

Seeking to renew an ancient companionship between the philosophical andthe religious, this book's meditative chapters dwell on certain elementalexperiences 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 philosophicalmindfulness 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 arbitrarysubjectivism 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 toit by religion, not just how religion might stand up to the questions posed to it byphilosophy. Desmond tries to pursue a new and different policy, one faithfulto the light of this dialogue. Annotation 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 Is There a Sabbath for Thought? 5 Contents 9 Preface and Acknowledgments 11 By Way of Introduction: The Intimate Universal鈥擝etween Religion and Philosophy 13 Chapter 1: The Sleep of Finitude: On the Unease of Philosophy and Religion 45 Chapter 2: Between Finitude and Infinity: Hegelian Reason and the Pascalian Heart 85 Chapter 3: Religion and the Poverty of Philosophy 117 Chapter 4: Religious Imagination and the Counterfeit Doubles of God 146 Chapter 5: God Beyond the Whole: Between Solov'ev and Shestov 179 Chapter 6: Caesar with the Soul of Christ: Nietzsche鈥檚 Highest Impossibility 212 Chapter 7: The Secret Sources of Strengthening: On Courage 250 Chapter 8: On the Betrayals of Reverence 274 Chapter 9: Enemies: On Hatred 301 Chapter 10: Is There a Sabbath for Thought? On Peace鈥擝etween Philosophy and Religion 324 Index 369 Perspectives inContinental Philosophy Series 375 Renewing an ancient companionship between the philosophical and the religious, William Desmond dwells on elemental experiences or happenings that keep the soul alive to the enigma of the divine. He pursues what is most intimate in us, yet most universal. Being religious has to do with that intimate universal, beyond arbitrary subjectivism and reductionist objectivism. In this book, he illuminates 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. Content: The sleep of finitude: on the unease of philosophy and religion -- Between finitude and infinity: Hegelian reason and the Pascalian heart -- Religion and the poverty of philosophy -- Religious imagination and the counterfeit doubles of God -- God beyond the whole: between Solov'ev and Shestov -- Caesar with the soul of Christ: Nietzsche's highest impossibility -- The secret sources of strengthening: on courage -- On the betrayals of reverence -- Enemies: on hatred -- Is there a Sabbath for thought? On peace -- between philosophy and religion. This book dwells on elemental experiences that keep the soul alive to the enigma of the divine. It pursues what is intimate yet universal: sleep, reverence, hatred and love, peace and war. It looks at religion with an open mind, asking how philosophy might stand up to some of the questions posed to it by religion, not just vice versa. William Desmond dwells on elemental experiences that keep the soul alive to the enigma of the divine. He pursues what is intimate yet universal: sleep, reverence, hatred and love, peace and war