Selfless Love and Human Flourishing in Paul Tillich and Iris Murdoch

Zusatztext well-written and clearly argued ... Meszaros goes beyond Tillich and Murdoch to offer a more robust notion of selfless love that proves more promising for human flourishing in a contemporary context. Informationen zum Autor Julia T. Meszaros is a Postdoctoral Fellow at KU Leuven, Belgium. Klappentext The book provides detailed analyses of Tillich's and Murdoch's accounts of love and the self, as well as of their respective interlocutors, with a special emphasis on their engagement with existentialism. Zusammenfassung The book provides detailed analyses of Tillich's and Murdoch's accounts of love and the self, as well as of their respective interlocutors, with a special emphasis on their engagement with existentialism. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Selfless Love Contested: Framing the Debate 2: Grappling with a Tension: Love and the Self in Søren Kierkegaard 3: From Tension to Dichotomy: Selfless Love after Kierkegaard 4: A Participatory Individual: The Self in Paul Tillich 5: Eros and Agape: Love in Paul Tillich 6: 'A Mechanism of Attachments': The Self in Iris Murdoch 7: Eros and Attention: Love in Iris Murdoch 8: Recovering Selfless Love: Final Evaluations Bibliography

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Julia T. (Postdoctoral Fellow Meszaros, Meszaros Julia T., Julia T. Meszaros
• Editore: Oxford University Press
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Copertina rigida
• Data pubblicazione: 17.03.2016
• Categoria: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Psicologia > Psicologia teorica; Saggistica > Filosofia, religione > Religione: tematiche generali, opere di consultazi
• EAN: 9780198765868
• ISBN: 978-0-19-876586-8
• Numero di pagine: 236
• Serie: Oxford Theology and Religion Monographs; Oxford Theology and Religion M
• Categorie: RELIGION / Spirituality, PHILOSOPHY / Religious, RELIGION / Christian Theology / General, RELIGION / Philosophy, RELIGION / Christianity / General, Theology, Christianity, Christian theology, Philosophy of religion, Christian spirituality & religious experience, Spirituality and religious experience