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An open space for passionate dialogue emerges from conversations that powerfully engage both intellectual and religious points of view.
List of contents
Appropriating Modernism, Merold Westphal
I. Placing Postmodernism
1. On the Uses and Advantages of An Epistemology For Life, W. Jay Wood
2.Postmodernism as a Kind of Modernism: Nietzsche's Critique of Knowledge, Lee Hardy
3.Is the Postmodern Post-Secular? The Parody of Religious Quests in Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49 and Don De Lillo's White Noise, Brian D. Ingraffia
4.Against Appropriation: Postmodern Programs, Claimants, Contests, Conversations, Gary Percesepe
II. Theological Issues
5.The Hermeneutics of Difference: Barth and Derrida on Words and the Word, Garrett Green
6.The Bitterness of Cain: (Post)modernity's Disdain for Determinacy, Walter Lowe
7.Sketch of a Phenomenological Concept of Gift, Jean-Luc Marion
8.Against Idolatry: Heidegger and Natural Theology, George Connell
9.Yearning for Home: The Christian Doctrine of Creation in a Postmodern Age, Steven Bouma-Prediger
10.Toward a Postmodern Theology of the Cross: Augustine, Heidegger, Derrida, John D. Caputo
III. Ethical and Social Issues
11.Emmanuel Levinas and Hillel's Questions, Edith Wyschogrod
12.Love's Reason: From Heideggerian Care to Christian Charity, Norman Wirzba
13.Between Exclusivity and Plurality: Toward a Postmodern Christian Philosophy of Other Religions, Andrew J. Dell'Olio
Contributors
Index
About the author
Merold Westphal is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Fordham University. He has served as president of the Hegel Society of America and the Soren Kierkegaard Society and as co-director of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy. His works include History and Truth in Hegel's Phenomenology (3rd edition; Indiana University Press) and God, Guilt, and Death: An Existential Phenomenology of Religion (Indiana University Press). He is co-editor (with Martin Matu_tík) of Kierkegaard in Post/Modernity (Indiana University Press).
Summary
Explores the convergences between postmodern philosophies and religious belief and thought
