Man as a Place of God
Springer (Verlag)
978-90-481-7575-8 (ISBN)
The focus of interpretation is the hermeneutics of ‘kenosis’: the subject’s ability to be open towards the other to the point where man can be seen as a place of ‘God’, a place where the infinite attains to finite existence. Does this mean that the kenotic subject totally disappears from the arena of his own life, to reach out for a sublime existence that is no longer of ‘this world’ – as in the philosophy of Plato, Plotinus and certain mystical thinkers? This book will argue the reverse: the kenotic sublimity developed by Levinas is in keeping with ethics, and even with concrete acts of responsibility. Also, it refers to a certain idea of God, who comes into being in a ‘kenotic’ way: by giving himself in the ethical experience of man and woman, regardless of their culture and religious beliefs.
Explorations In Hermeneutics.- Time, Finiteness and Infinity: The Real Theme of Levinas' Conversation with Heidegger.- Interpreting Ourselves and Caring for Others: Levinas and Rorty.- The Other of the Other: Levinas and Derrida on Generosity and Transcendence.- Ethics, Religion, And Kenosis.- Evil, Transcendence, and God.- From Religion to Ethics: The Disruption of the Infinite.- Hermeneutics of Kenosis: The Road of Dispossession.
From the reviews:
“We are now in the second generation of Levinas studies, and this volume properly presumes a familiarity with both the Levinas corpus and a fair number of first generation studies. The author is a professor at the Protestant Theological University in Kampen, The Netherlands; and her book bestrides philosophy and theology much in the way Levinas’s own works do. … Renée van Riessen has presented this theme clearly and persuasively in a welcome contribution to Levinas studies.” (Andrew Tallon, American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 83 (4), 2009)
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 25.11.2010 |
---|---|
Reihe/Serie | Amsterdam Studies in Jewish Thought ; 13 |
Zusatzinfo | VIII, 217 p. |
Verlagsort | Dordrecht |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 155 x 235 mm |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Metaphysik / Ontologie | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie | |
ISBN-10 | 90-481-7575-5 / 9048175755 |
ISBN-13 | 978-90-481-7575-8 / 9789048175758 |
Zustand | Neuware |
Haben Sie eine Frage zum Produkt? |
aus dem Bereich