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Using both Father Kevin Wall's eidetic matrix of "the relational unity of being" and Edith Stein's remarkable synoptic view of intentionality in both Aquinas and Husserl, this book uncovers purely logical ground for a subalternate eidetic science called "convergent phenomenology," itself located at the inmost depths of Husserlian phenomenology. Convergent phenomenology emerges as a distinctively new discipline dealing with relation-like objectivity as opposed to the thing-like objectivity of traditional phenomenology. This has grand implications for the way we as humans conceive of God and being. The book thus benefits theologians, logicians, and phenomenologists by revealing the constitutive interrelationality of transcendental logic in an utterly new light as already flowering forth into formal ontology itself. What emerges is a rich conception of divinity and humanity.
List of contents
1. Preface.- 2. Scaling the First Slopes: The Nachlass of Wall.- 3. Scaling the Next Slopes: From Adesse to Fülle.- 4. Scaling the Final Mountain: Four Box-Canyons.- 5. At the Summit: Definitions and Something Else.- 6. An Interlude: Along Stein's Way.- 7. At the Summit Waystation: No More Box-Canyons.
About the author
Jim Ruddy holds a doctorate in Comparative Philosophy from Madras University in Chennai, India. He is the author of
Being, Relation and the Re-Worlding of Intentionality (2016).
