The Phenomenology of Prayer / / ed. by Bruce Ellis Benson, Norman Wirzba.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
• MitwirkendeR: Andrews, Michael F.,; Benson, Bruce Ellis,; Cauchi, Mark,; Crowe, Benjamin,; Gedney, Mark,; Goodchild, Philip,; Gschwandtner, Christina M.,; Kearns, Cleo Mcnelly,; McCullough, Lissa,; Mensch, James R.,; Mooney, Edward F.,; Putt, B. Keith,; Robbins, Jill,; Treanor, Brian,; Westphal, Merold,; Wirzba, Norman,; Wright, Terrence C.,
• HerausgeberIn: Benson, Bruce Ellis,; Wirzba, Norman,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2022]; ©2006
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (312 p.)

This collection of ground-breaking essays considers the many dimensions of prayer: how prayer relates us to the divine; prayer's ability to reveal what is essential about our humanity; the power of prayer to transform human desire and action; and the relation of prayer to cognition. It takes up the meaning of prayer from within a uniquely phenomenological point of view, demonstrating that the phenomenology of prayer is as much about the character and boundaries of phenomenological analysis as it is about the heart of religious life. The contributors: Michael F. Andrews, Bruce Ellis Benson, Mark Cauchi, Benjamin Crowe, Mark Gedney, Philip Goodchild, Christina M. Gschwandtner, Lissa McCullough, Cleo McNelly Kearns, Edward F. Mooney, B. Keith Putt, Jill Robbins, Brian Treanor, Merold Westphal, Norman Wirzba, Terence Wright and Terence and James R. Mensch. Bruce Ellis Benson is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Wheaton College. He is the author of Graven Ideologies: Nietzsche, Derrida, and Marion on Modern Idolatry and The Improvisation of Musical Dialogue: A Phenomenology of Music. Norman Wirzba is Associate Professor and Chair of the Philosophy Department at Georgetown College, Kentucky. He is the author of The Paradise of God and editor of The Essential Agrarian Reader.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- PART I Learning How to Pray -- 1 Prayer as the Posture of the Decentered Self -- 2 Who Prays? Levinas on Irremissible Responsibility -- 3 Becoming What We Pray: Passion’s Gentler Resolutions -- 4 Prayer as Kenosis -- 5 The Prayers and Tears of Friedrich Nietzsche -- 6 Attention and Responsibility The Work of Prayer -- PART II Praying and the Limits of Phenomenology -- 7 Irigaray’s Between East and West Breath, Pranayama, and the Phenomenology of Prayer -- 8 Heidegger and the Prospect of a Phenomenology of Prayer -- 9 Edith Stein Prayer and Interiority -- 10 ‘‘Too Deep for Words’’ The Conspiracy of a Divine ‘‘Soliloquy’’ -- 11 Plus de Secret The Paradox of Prayer -- 12 Praise—Pure and Personal? Jean-Luc Marion’s Phenomenologies of Prayer -- PART III Defining Prayer’s Intentionality -- 13 The Saving or Sanitizing of Prayer The Problem of the Sans in Derrida’s Account of Prayer -- 14 How (Not) to Find God in All Things Derrida, Levinas, and St. Ignatius of Loyola on Learning How to Pray for the Impossible -- 15 Prayer and Incarnation: A Homiletical Reflection -- 16 The Infinite Supplicant On a Limit and a Prayer -- 17 Proslogion -- Notes -- Contributors -- Index