How Theology Shaped Twentieth-Century Philosophy

Informationen zum Autor Frank B. Farrell is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Purchase College, State University of New York. His publications include Subjectivity, Realism, and Postmodernism: The Recovery of the World in Recent Philosophy (Cambridge, 1994) and Why Does Literature Matter? (2004). Klappentext Re-examines our relationship to the modern world by providing new perspectives on the influence of medieval, Jewish, and Christian theologies. Zusammenfassung Medieval theological ideas had an important influence on later philosophy. This book explores the legacy of these ideas and shows how key figures including Carnap, Russell, Quine, Hegel, Derrida, Benjamin, and McDowell were influenced by them yet also sought to escape from them. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments; Introduction: the thinning out of the world; 1. Empiricism and theology; 2. John McDowell: rejecting the defensive move inward; 3. Aristotle redivivus: on Saul Kripke; 4. Hegel, theology, and Pippin's reading of Hegel; 5. Walter Benjamin: incarnation or radical incommensurability?; 6. Rolling back the Protestant Reformation: Wittgenstein and Dennett; 7. McDowell (II): active and passive faculties and the theological framework; 8. Derrida, the religion of the sublime, and the messianic; 9. Literature today and the sublime absence of aesthetic experience; 10. Where do we go from here?; Bibliography; Index.

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• Authors: Frank B. Farrell, Frank B. (State University of New York Farrell, Farrell Frank B.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2019
• EAN: 9781108491716
• ISBN: 978-1-108-49171-6
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, Theology, Christianity, Christian theology, Judaism, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, History of Western philosophy, Judaism: theology