The Catholic Reception of Continental Philosophy in North America / / ed. by Gregory P. Floyd, Stephanie Rumpza.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DTL Humanities 2020
• MitwirkendeR: Benson, Bruce Ellis,; Bloechl, Jeffrey,; Byrne, Patrick H.,; Caputo, John D.,; Carpenter, Anne M.,; Dahlstrom, Daniel O.,; Desmond, William,; Floyd, Gregory P.,; Grondin, Jean,; Gschwandtner, Christina M.,; O’Regan, Cyril,; Prevot, Andrew,; Rumpza, Stephanie,
• HerausgeberIn: Floyd, Gregory P.,; Rumpza, Stephanie,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (346 p.) :; 1 b&w table

This volume by leading philosophers and theologians explores the reception of continental philosophy in North America and its ongoing relation to Catholic institutions. What has prompted so many North American Catholics to support this particular school of thought? Why do so many Catholics continue to find continental philosophy attractive, and why do so many continental philosophers work in Catholic departments? The establishment of the relationship between continental philosophy and Catholicism was not obvious, nor was it easy. Many of the contributors to this volume have played important roles in its development, and in these pages they take a stance on this evolving relationship and demonstrate that the engagement is far from over. Exploring the mutual interests that made this alliance possible as well as the underlying tensions, the volume provides, for the first time, an extended reflection on the historical, institutional, and intellectual relationship between Catholicism and continental philosophy on North American soil up to the present day.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Catholics and Continental Thought – a Curious Allegiance -- 1. The Reception of Phenomenology and Existentialism by American Catholic Philosophers: Some Facts and Some Reasons -- 2. Philosophy between the Old World and the New: Neoscholasticism, Continental Philosophy, and the Historical Subject -- 3. Continental Philosophy and American Catholics: Then, Now, and Tomorrow -- 4. Meaning, Concreteness, and Subjectivity: American Phenomenology, Catholic Philosophy, and Lonergan from an Institutional Perspective -- 5. Catholicism and Continental Philosophy in French Canada: An Opening Followed by an Ungrateful Separation -- 6. Phenomenology and Catholic Thought: Unfolding the logos of the Logos -- 7. The Use of Philosophy in Critical Catholic Theology -- 8. Continental Philosophy as a Source for Theology: The Case of the “Science–Religion” Debate -- 9. How Continental Philosophy of Religion Came into Being and Where It Is Going -- 10. Phenomenology, Catholic Thought, and the University: Lessons from the French Discussion -- 11. Being True to Mystery and Metaxological Metaphysics -- 12. Slavoj Žižek’s Theory: The Christian Tradition and the Catholic Intellectual -- About the Authors -- Index