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Kierkegaard in Post/Modernity
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 328

Kierkegaard in Post/Modernity

Covering a diversity of themes, this collection still reflects consensus--Kierkegaard is to be taken seriously as a philosopher at the turn of the twenty-first century.

Specters of Liberation
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 386

Specters of Liberation

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1998-01-01
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  • Publisher: SUNY Press

Advocates a new existential and political coalition among critical and postmodern social theorists and among critical gender, race, and class theorists, in dissent from the New World Order, to raise specters of liberation and empower radical democratic change.

Postnational Identity
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 329

Postnational Identity

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1993
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Contradictory interpretations have been applied to history-making events that led to the end of the cold war: Václav Havel, using Kierkegaardian terms, called the demise of totalitarianism in east-central Europe an "existential revolution"' (i.e. an awakening of human responsibility, spirit, and reason), while others hailed it as a victory for the "New World Order." Regardless of one's point of view, however, it is clear that the global landscape has been dramatically altered. Where once the competition between capitalism and communism provided a basis for establishing political- and self-identity, today, the destructive forces of nationalist identity and religious and secular fundamentalis...

Kierkegaard and Levinas
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 288

Kierkegaard and Levinas

Recent discussions in the philosophy of religion, ethics, and personal political philosophy have been deeply marked by the influence of two philosophers who are often thought to be in opposition to each other, SÃ ̧ren Kierkegaard and Emmanuel Levinas. Devoted expressly to the relationship between Levinas and Kierkegaard, this volume sets forth a more rigorous comparison and sustained engagement between them. Established and newer scholars representing varied philosophical traditions bring these two thinkers into dialogue in 12 sparkling essays. They consider similarities and differences in how each elaborated a unique philosophy of religion, and they present themes such as time, obligation, love, politics, God, transcendence, and subjectivity. This conversation between neighbors is certain to inspire further inquiry and ignite philosophical debate.

Radical Evil and the Scarcity of Hope
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 314

Radical Evil and the Scarcity of Hope

Matustík presents a bold new way of dealing with one of humanity's most intractable problems.

Kierkegaard and Critical Theory
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 125

Kierkegaard and Critical Theory

Kierkegaard's impact on the development of critical theory has received scant study; it is the aim of the book to fill this scholarly lacuna. Kierkegaard and Critical Theory seeks to expose the complexity not only of Kierkegaard but of the Frankfurt School and their cohort, highlighting the ways in which the Danish religious thinker has been redeemed for a multiculture activist ethics in spirit with the fundamental aims of the Frankfurt School.

Out of Silence
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 348

Out of Silence

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-12-01
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  • Publisher: Unknown

"Out of Silence: Repair across Generations "is the story of one man's journey through three generations and five continents to find-and heal-a past he didn't know existed. In 1997, Martin Beck Matu tik made a dramatic discovery at the age of forty: he was the child of a Holocaust survivor. His mother's shocking secret came from the most unlikely of places-shoeboxes full of her literary and personal archives. These dramatic revelations changed his life forever and set him on a path to discover his true identity. His research unveiled his mother's remarkable life-and the truth behind her painful decision to reject her Jewish heritage and keep it hidden from her family. Akin to Madeleine Albrig...

Postnational Identity
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 335

Postnational Identity

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-02-10
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  • Publisher: Unknown

The Second Edition Contradictory interpretations have been applied to history-making events that led to the end of the Cold War: Václav Havel, using Kierkegaardian terms, called the demise of totalitarianism in East-Central Europe an "existential revolution" (i.e. an awakening of human responsibility, spirit, and reason), while others hailed it as a victory for the "New World Order." Regardless of one's point of view, however, it is clear that the global landscape has been dramatically altered. Where once the competition between capitalism and communism provided a basis for establishing political- and self-identity, today the destructive forces of nationalist identity and religious and secu...

Jürgen Habermas
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 408

Jürgen Habermas

This philosophical-political profile offers the first of its kind intellectual reconstruction of HabermasOs defining existential and historical situations, his generational profile and interventions, his impact on as well as the discontents that his life work generates in others. Written as a lively dramatic engagement with major themes of HabermasOs adult life in postwar Germany, the entire study occupies a unique place between the standard genres of a biography and a theoretical commentary on the oeuvre. In this work the reader is taken on a journey with Habermas through the 20th-century intellectual and political history from the defeat of Nazism, to the Cold War restoration of the '50s, ...

Calvin O. Schrag and the Task of Philosophy After Postmodernity
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 370

Calvin O. Schrag and the Task of Philosophy After Postmodernity

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2002
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  • Publisher: Unknown

This collection of essays is a critical document in Continental philosophy, reflecting its recent history, its present state, and its debt to Calvin O. Schrag. It begins with an overview of philosophy's role and responsibility or "task" and of Schrag's contributions to it, written from the perspective of a resolute defender of the phenomenological tradition that Schrag's work has extended and reconfigured. The essays are organized around the four conceptual figures widely considered Schrag's most significant and original philosophical achievements: transversal rationality, the self after post-modernity, the fourth cultural value sphere, and communication praxis. The authors focus on topics ranging from Cartesian rationality to Foucauldian rational relativism; from transcendence in relation to the self to the Schragean self's connections with discourse, action, and community; from religion's disruptive presence in contemporary philosophy to recent developments in the philosophy of language.