Styles of Piety : : Practicing Philosophy after the Death of God / / ed. by S. Clark Buckner, Matthew Statler.

The last half century has seen both attempts to demythologize the idea of God into purely secular forces and the resurgence of the language of “God” as indispensable to otherwise secular philosophers for describing experience. This volume asks whether “piety” might be a sort of irreducible human pro...

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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
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Physical Description:1 online resource (320 p.)
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Other title:Frontmatter --
Contents --
Acknowledgments --
Introduction --
PART I : THE P ERSISTENT PROBLEM OF VALUE --
1 Violations --
2 Fatherhood and the Promise of Ethics --
3 Suffering Faith in Philosophy --
4 Becoming Real—with Style --
5 Morality without God --
PART II : PHILOSOPHY AND I TS FICTIONS --
6 How Does Philosophy Become What It Is? --
7 Genealogy, History, and the Work of Fiction --
8 Tragic Dislocations: Antigone’s Modern Theatrics --
9 A Touch of Piety: The Tragedy of Antigone’s Hands --
PART III: DECONSTRUCTION AND RELIGION --
10 The Prayers and Tears of Jacques Derrida --
11 God: Poison or Cure? A Reply to John D. Caputo --
12 Those Weeping Eyes, Those Seeing Tears: Reading John D. Caputo’s Ethics --
13 Derrida and Dante: The Promise of Writing and the Piety of Broken Promises --
14 Laughing, Praying, Weeping before God: A Response --
Notes --
Index
Summary:The last half century has seen both attempts to demythologize the idea of God into purely secular forces and the resurgence of the language of “God” as indispensable to otherwise secular philosophers for describing experience. This volume asks whether “piety” might be a sort of irreducible human problematic: functioning both inside and outside religion.
Format:Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
ISBN:9780823292660
9783111189604
9783110707298
DOI:10.1515/9780823292660
Access:restricted access
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: ed. by S. Clark Buckner, Matthew Statler.