Sacrifice in the Post-Kantian Tradition - Perspectivism, Intersubjectivity, and Recognition

Informationen zum Autor Paolo Diego Bubbio is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Western Sydney University, Australia. His books include Sacrifice in the Post-Kantian Tradition: Perspectivism, Intersubjectivity, and Recognition , also published by SUNY Press. Klappentext An examination of the philosophical notion of sacrifice from Kant to Nietzsche. In this book, Paolo Diego Bubbio offers an alternative to standard philosophical accounts of the notion of sacrifice, which generally begin with the hermeneutic and postmodern traditions of the twentieth century, starting instead with the post-Kantian tradition of the nineteenth century. He restructures the historical development of the concept of sacrifice through a study of Kant, Solger, Hegel, Kierkegaard, and Nietzsche, and shows how each is indebted to Kant and has more in common with him than is generally acknowledged. Bubbio argues that although Kant sought to free philosophical thought from religious foundations, he did not thereby render the role of religious claims philosophically useless. This makes it possible to consider sacrifice as a regulative and symbolic notion, and leads to an unorthodox idea of sacrifice: not the destruction of something for the sake of something else, but rather a kenotic emptying, conceived as a withdrawal or a "making room" for others.

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• Authors: Paolo Diego Bubbio, Bubbio Paolo Diego
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.08.2014
• EAN: 9781438452517
• ISBN: 978-1-4384-5251-7
• No. of pages: 212
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 235 mm x 19 mm
• Series: SUNY Series in Contemporary Co; SUNY series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; RELIGION / General, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General, Religious issues & debates, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, History of Western philosophy, Religious issues and debates