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This book dwells on elemental experiences that keep the soul alive to the enigma of the divine. It pursues what is intimate yet universal: sleep, reverence, hatred and love, peace and war. It looks at religion with an open mind, asking how philosophy might stand up to some of the questions posed to it by religion, not just vice versa.

This book studies the use of biblical quotations in Kierkegaard's pseudonymous works, as well as Kierkegaard's hermeneutical methods in general. Kierkegaard's mode of writing in these works-indeed, the very method of indirect communication-consists in a certain appropriation of the Bible.

In the context of Holderlin's poetics of alienation, exile, and wandering, Gosetti-Ferencei poses a phenomenologically sensitive theory of poetic language and a "new poetics of Dasein," or being there.

Here, Allen Scult investigates being Jewish as embodying a way of understanding Heidegger's attempt to deal with complications in his early phenomenology. Scult uncovers significant ways in which Heidegger's fundamental ontology is grounded in the lived experience of religion.

Difference has been a term of choice in the humanities for the last few decades, animating an extraordinary variety of work in philosophy, literary studies, religion, law, the social sciences-indeed, in virtually every area of the academy. This book offers reflections on what ideas and practices will drive the next generation of critical thinking.

This a collection of letters by Emma Spaulding who left behind rural Maine for a life in Georgia as the wife of radical Republican carpetbagger John Emory Bryant. Emma supported John's controversial agenda and became an independent thinker, teacher, suffragist, and officer in the Woman's Christian Temperance Union.

"A marvelous story... will be consulted as long as World War II and the Spanish Civil War are studied... Cane is a very good writer." Frank F. Mathias, author of The GI Generation: A Memoir

Probably no theologian has exercised so profound an influence on Catholic theology during the last half century as Karl Rahner. This book examines the structure of dialectical analogy as it appears in each of the major themes of Rahner's theology-as an indispensable key to the correct interpretation of his thought.

In the third text in the phenomenological trilogy that includes "Reduction and Givenness" and "Being Given", Jean-Luc Marion renews his argument for a phenomenology of givenness, with penetrating analyses of the phenomena of event, idol, flesh and icon.

Don Cupitt is best known for the "non-realistic" doctrine of God, which he first put forward in 1980. This is a collection of his essays written over 20 years, that show him developing his distinctive theology before a variety of audiences.

"Westphal here brings together his discussions over the last decade of how Christianity can and should engage and appropriate post-modernism...it's easily the best contribution to the discussion that I know of."-Nicholas Wolterstorff, Yale University

This title offers an interpretation of Kierkegaard as a precursor of the ethical and political insights of Jacques Derrida. It argues that the affiliations between the two run much deeper than previously suggested. It seeks to show how postmodern and political Kierkegaard's "religious" ideas are.

Marked sharply by its time and place (Paris in the 1970s), this early theological text by Jean-Luc Marion maintains a strikingly deep resonance with his most recent, groundbreaking, and ever more widely discussed phenomenology.

This book provides a comprehensive, critical study of the oldest and most famous argument for the existence of God: the Cosmological Argument. Professor Rowe examines and interprets historically significant versions of the argument from Aquinas to Samuel Clarke and explores the major objections that have been advances against it.

"Extremely well done... will universally be referred to, not by its title, but as 'Kraus's Companion'..." -Transactions of the C. S. Peirce Society

"... remarkably accessible ... indispensable for Christians who perceive a second, more positive postmodernism."-Third Way

A collection of the letters of John D. Rockefeller and John D. Rockefeller, Jr, tracing the history of the transfer of the Rockefeller fortune over the course of 50 years.

Edward Geary Lansdale (1908-1987) truly became a legend in his own time. His mission to the Philippines in the early 1950s as an Air Force officer and CIA agent resulted in the defeat of the communist-led Hukbalahap movement and the subsequent election of Ramon Magsayay, arguably the most popular president that the people of the Philippines have known.

The illuminating intellectual biography of one of the most controversial Italian figures of the twentieth century.

This book examines the methodological significance of the future in the work of Husserl, Levinas and Derrida. In doing so, it reveals phenomenology to be, in its essence, a promissory discipline.

The book examines how 19th- and 20th-century French-speaking poets have used cinema for cross-medium writing experiments, especially in the aftermath of the two world wars, thereby altering modernist literary imagination.

Written in an easy, often witty, style Documentality revises Foucault's late concept of the "ontology of actuality" into the project of an "ontological laboratory," thereby reinventing philosophy as a pragmatic activity that is directly applicable to our everyday life.

Examines poetic responses to the transition from the late Cold War period to the post-Cold War era of globalization, focusing on the work of Bei Dao and Yang Lian from China, Arkadii Dragomoshchenko and Dmitrii Prigov from Russia, and Charles Bernstein and Lyn Hejinian from the United States.

The sublime refers to a conflict of the Kantian faculties of reason and imagination, and involves the attempt to represent what is intrinsically unrepresentable. Through topics such as sublimation, schizophrenia, God, and creation ex nihilo, this book contributes to a form of radical theological thinking that is involved in the world.

Develops a philosophy of life in opposition to the notion of "bio-power," which reduces the human to the question of power over what Giorgio Agamben terms "bare life," mere biological existence. This book provides conceptual tools for intervening in issues such as the AIDS epidemic and life-support for the infirm.

What does theology have to say about the place of eroticism in the salvific transformation of men and women, even of the cosmos itself? How, in turn, does eros infuse theological practice and transfigure doctrinal tropes? This book aims to explore a largely uncharted territory in the realm of theological erotics.

Affirmations of body, flesh and matter pervade current theology and inevitably echo with the doctrine of the incarnation. Intercarnations redistributes its flesh, sometimes unrecognizably, in the boundlessly entangled ecologies of the world. These essays attend to matters diversely religious and irreligious, sexed and gendered, social, animal, cosmpolitan, and cosmic.

Sketches the history of the belief that human beings are essentially their brains, and documents and critically discusses its contemporary forms across a range of contexts, including mental health, the human sciences, and literature and film.