Self and other : essays in continental philosophy of religion

It is well known that the philosophy of religion has flourished in recent decades in Anglo-American philosophy, where philosophers are bringing new techniques to the study of many of the traditional problems. Although there is more diversity in Anglo-American philosophy of religion than is sometimes recognized, it nevertheless provides a body of literature with a recent history that is sufficiently coherent to enable commentators to identify the movement with some clarity. The story is somewhat different with the emerging field of continental philosophy of religion, where many of the leading contributors are not generally known as philosophers of religion and where many of the approaches are based upon a critique of traditional western theories of rationality, experience and theism and an extension of the more traditional boundaries of philosophical reflection on religion. The essays in this volume focus on some of the topics that are shaping recent continental philosophy of religion, including self and other, evil and suffering, religion and society and the relation between philosophy and theology. Contributors are Pamela Sue Anderson, Maeve Cooke, Richard A. Cohen, Fred Dallmayr, Hent de Vries, William Franke, Anselm K. Min, Michael Purcell, Calvin O. Schrag, Merold Westphal, Edith Wyschogrod and the editor Eugene Thomas Long. Reprinted from __The International Journal for Philosophy of Religion__, 60:1-3 (2006). "It is well known that the philosophy of religion has flourished in recent decades in Anglo-American philosophy, where philosophers are bringing new techniques to the study of many of the traditional problems. Although there is more diversity in Anglo-American philosophy of religion than is sometimes recognized, it nevertheless provides a body of literature with a recent history that is sufficiently coherent to enable commentators to identify the movement with some clarity. The story is somewhat different with the emerging field of continental philosophy of religion, where many of the leading contributors are not generally known as philosophers of religion and where many of the approaches are based upon a critique of traditional western theories of rationality, experience and theism and an extension of the more traditional boundaries of philosophical reflection on religion. The essays in this volume focus on some of the topics that are shaping recent continental philosophy of religion, including self and other, evil and suffering, religion and society and the relation between philosophy and theology. Contributors are Pamela Sue Anderson, Maeve Cooke, Richard A. Cohen, Fred Dallmayr, Hent de Vries, William Franke, Anselm K. Min, Michael Purcell, Calvin O. Schrag, Merold Westphal, Edith Wyschogrod and the editor Eugene Thomas Long." -- Publisher description Self And Other : An Introduction / Eugene Thomas Long -- On Hesitation Before The Other / Michael Purcell -- Levinas : Thinking Least About Death, Contra Heidegger / Richard A. Cohen -- Life, Death And (inter)subjectivity : Realism And Recognition In Continental Feminism / Pamela Sue Anderson -- Apophasis And The Turn Of Philosophy To Religion : From Neoplatonic Negative Theology To Postmodern Negation Of Theology / William Franke -- From Ghost In The Machine To Spiritual Automation : Philosophical Meditation In Wittgenstein, Cavell, And Levinas / Hent De Vries -- Naming The Unnameable God : Levinas, Derrida, And Marion / Anselm K. Min -- Vision And Voice : Phenomenology And Theology In The Work Of Jean-luc Marion / Merold Westphal -- Suffering And Transcendence / Eugene Thomas Long -- Otherness And The Problem Of Evil : How Does That Which Is Other Become Evil? / Calvin O. Schrag -- Repentance And Forgiveness : The Undoing Of Time / Edith Wyschogrod -- An End To Evil? : Philosophical And Political Reflections / Fred Dallmayr -- Salvaging And Secularizing The Semantic Contents Of Religion : The Limitations Of Habermas's Postmetaphysical Proposal / Maeve Cooke. Edited By Eugene Thomas Long. Offprint: The International Journal For Philosophy Of Religion, Vol. 60, Nos. 1-3, Dec. 2006. Includes Bibliographical References. Front Matter....Pages I-VII Self and other: An introduction....Pages 1-7 On Hesitation before the Other....Pages 9-19 Levinas: thinking least about death—contra Heidegger....Pages 21-39 Life, death and (inter)subjectivity: realism and recognition in continental feminism....Pages 41-59 Apophasis and the turn of philosophy to religion: From Neoplatonic negative theology to postmodern negation of theology....Pages 61-76 From “ghost in the machine” to “spiritual automaton”: Philosophical meditation in Wittgenstein, Cavell, and Levinas....Pages 77-97 Naming the Unnameable God: Levinas, Derrida, and Marion....Pages 99-116 Vision and voice: Phenomenology and theology in the work of Jean-Luc Marion....Pages 117-137 Suffering and transcendence....Pages 139-148 Otherness and the problem of evil: How does that which is other become evil?....Pages 149-156 Repentance and forgiveness: the undoing of time....Pages 157-168 An end to evil? Philosophical and political reflections....Pages 169-186 Salvaging and secularizing the semantic contents of religion: the limitations of Habermas’s postmetaphysical proposal....Pages 187-207 The essays in this volume focus on some of the topics that are shaping recent continental philosophy of religion. These primary topics include self and other, evil and suffering, religion and society and the relation between philosophy and theology. The articles are by an international group of leading contributors to recent continental philosophy of religion.