Philosophy and the Turn to Religion / Hent de Vries.

Originally published in 1999. If religion once seemed to have played out its role in the intellectual and political history of Western secular modernity, it has now returned with a vengeance. In Philosophy and the Turn to Religion, Hent de Vries argues that a turn to religion discernible in recent p...

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Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (1 online resource (xviii, 475 pages))
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  • Originally published as Johns Hopkins Press in 1999
  • Open access edition supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities / Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program.
  • The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivatives 4.0 International License
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Table of Contents:
  • Revealing Revelations
  • Two Misreadings
  • Mikel Dufrenne's Plea for a Nontheological Philosophy
  • Jean-Luc Marion's Heterology of Donation
  • The Example Par Excellence
  • Hypertheology
  • The Unavoidable
  • Yet Another "Non-Theo-Anthropological Otherness"
  • Thearchy and Beyond
  • The Movement Upward
  • Angelus Silesius's uber
  • Pseudo-Dionysius's hyper
  • Emmanuel Levinas's autrement
  • Jean-Luc Marion's Analogy of Hierarchy
  • The Affirmative First
  • The Diacritical Moment of Prayer
  • Analytical Confirmations
  • Formal Indications
  • Heidegger and Insubordination
  • Shortcuts
  • Reading St. Paul Methodically
  • Eschatology, the kaipos, and the [pi]apovsia
  • "As Though It Were Not"
  • Formal Indication: The Very Idea
  • Fiat Flux
  • On Becoming a Mystery to Oneself
  • "Religion qua Religion": Heidegger's Humanism
  • Transcendental Historicity
  • The Generous Repetition
  • Save the Name
  • The Impossibility of Possibility
  • The Death of the Other
  • The Aporetic as Such
  • Heidegger's Possibilism
  • Virtual Debates
  • The Kenosis of Discourse
  • Angelus Silesius's Cherubinic Wanderer
  • Save ... the Name
  • Revealing Revelations Once More
  • The Confessional Mode
  • Apocalyptics and Enlightenment
  • Idolatry and Hyperphysics
  • Kant and Kafka
  • The Revelation of John and the Ends of Philosophy
  • Speech Tact
  • Vigilance and the Ellipses of Enlightenment.