Unforgettable and the Unhoped for

In this first English translation of an important work, a leading phenomenologist unfolds the ideas of memory and loss, of the immemorable, and of hope, as he opens a phenomenological path to the heart of classical thought. He stands with Levinas, Marion, and Henry in attempting to join philosophy and religion after Kant, Nietzsche, and Heidegger.

List of contents

The immemorial and reminiscence; the reserve of forgetting; the unforgettable; the sudden and the unhoped for; retrospection.

About the author

Jean-Louis Chretien teaches philosophy at the University of Paris IV. His books, as translated into English, include The Unforgettable and the Unhoped For (Fordham University Press, 2002), Hand to Hand (Fordham University Press, 2003), and The Call and the Response (Fordham University Press, 2004). He is one of the coeditors of Phenomenology and the "Theological Turn": The French Debate (Fordham University Press, 2000), as well as the author of the follow-up volume Phenomenology "Wide Open": After the French Debate (Fordham University Press, 2005).

Summary

In this first English translation of an important work, a leading phenomenologist unfolds the ideas of memory and loss, of the immemorable, and of hope, as he opens a phenomenological path to the heart of classical thought. He stands with Levinas, Marion, and Henry in attempting to join philosophy and religion after Kant, Nietzsche, and Heidegger.

Product details

• Authors: Jean-Louis Chretien
• Assisted by: Jeffrey Bloechl (Translation)
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2002
• EAN: 9780823221936
• ISBN: 978-0-8232-2193-6
• No. of pages: 160
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 9 mm
• Weight: 211 g
• Series: Perspectives in Continental Philosophy; Perspectives in Continental Ph; Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
• Subject: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works