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Informationen zum Autor Norman Wirzba is Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Philosophy Department at Georgetown College. He is author of The Paradise of God: Renewing Religion in an Ecological Age and editor (with Bruce Ellis Benson) of The Phenomenology of Prayer. Bruce Ellis Benson is Associate Professor and Chair of the Philosophy Department at Wheaton College. He is author of Pious Nietzsche (IUP, 2007). He is editor (with Kevin Vanhoozer and James K. A. Smith) of Hermeneutics at the Crossroads (IUP, 2006). Klappentext Norman Wirzba is Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Philosophy Department at Georgetown College. He is author of The Paradise of God: Renewing Religion in an Ecological Age and editor (with Bruce Ellis Benson) of The Phenomenology of Prayer.Bruce Ellis Benson is Associate Professor and Chair of the Philosophy Department at Wheaton College. He is author of Pious Nietzsche (IUP, 2007). He is editor (with Kevin Vanhoozer and James K. A. Smith) of Hermeneutics at the Crossroads (IUP, 2006). Zusammenfassung Describes how various expressions of philosophy are transformed by the discipline of love. While it has been fairly common for philosophers to think about love, This work features 16 essays that go beyond the commonplace to show how philosophy is implicated in the ways of love. Inhaltsverzeichnis IntroductionNorman Wirzba and Bruce Ellis Benson Part 1. The Nature of the Quest 1. The Primacy of LoveNorman Wirzba 2. The Economies of Knowledge and Love in PaulBruce Ellis Benson 3. Love, This Lenient Interpreter: On the Complexity of a LifeEdward Mooney Part 2. Justice 4. A Love as Strong as Death: Ricoeur's Reading of the Song of SongsMark Gedney 5. Paul Ricoeur and the Possibility of Just LoveChristopher Watkin 6. Why There Is No Either/Or in Works of Love: A Kantian Defense of Kierkegaardian (Christian) Unconditional LoveBertha Alvarez Manninen 7. Living by Love: A Quasi-Apostolic carte postale on Love in Itself, If There Is Such a ThingJohn D. Caputo Part 3. The Sacred 8. A Love that B(l)inds: Reflections on an Agapic AgnosticismB. Keith Putt 9. Absence Makes the Heart Grow FonderBrian Treanor 10. Creation Ex AmoreJames Olthuis 11. Militant Love: Zizek and the Christian LegacyTyler Roberts 12. Love as a Declaration of War? On the Absolute Character of Love in Jean-Luc Marion's Phenomenology of ErosChristina M. Gschwandtner Part 4. Rethinking Humanity 13. Liberating Love's Capabilities: On the Wisdom of LovePamela Sue Anderson 14. The Genesis of Love: An Irigarayan ReadingRuthanne S. Pierson Crápo 15. You'd Better Find Somebody to Love: Toward a Kierkegaardian BioethicAmy Laura Hall List of Contributors Index ...
