Selfhood and Sacrifice

RenÃ© Girard and Charles Taylor on the Crisis of Modernity

AvAndrew O'Shea

Inbunden, Engelska, 2010

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Selfhood and Sacrifice is an original exploration of the ideas of two major contemporary thinkers. O'Shea offers a novel interpretation of Girard's work that opens up his discourse on violence and the sacred into a fruitful engagement with both Taylor's philosophical anthropology and his philosophical history. In an age when religious violence and the role of practical reason in the secular sphere are continually juxtaposed, O'Shea offers new possibilities of responding to the problems of global crisis through the critical lenses of two of the most original and engaging thinkers writing on religion today.

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Utgivningsdatum:2010-04-08
Mått:157 x 235 x 22 mm
Vikt:625 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:288
Förlag:Continuum Publishing Corporation
ISBN:9781441118820

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Andrew O'Shea is Senior Tutor and Assistant Lecturer in Philosophy and Human Development at St. Patrick's College, Dublin City University, Ireland.

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"This is an informative and intelligent discussion of two significant contemporary thinkers, both of whom have offered provocative interpretations of modernity and the continued importance of religion in a culture that prides itself on its secular character. In a thoughtful and engaging way Andrew O'Shea moderates a conversation between these two thinkers. His moderation is fair-minded to both thinkers, even when he is critical, and even when finally he finds himself siding more with Taylor's affirmation of modernity. Among the excellences of his book is its focused explication of the interrelated themes of selfhood and sacrifice as they bear on the contested issue of the sacred." -- William Desmond, Professor in the Centre for Metaphysics and Modern Philosophy, The Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium"

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction; Part 1. From Self to Sacrifice: Girardian Theory; I. Division and Unity in Literary Space (The Romantic Fallacy); II Division and Unity in Cultural Space (The Scapegoat Mechanism); III Negating Subjectivity and History: (Problems within Girardian Theory); Part 2. From Sacrifice to Self: Taylor's Philosophical Account; IV Transposing the Old Cosmic Order (The Modern Period); V Rethinking Division and Unity (Self, Religion, and the Current of Life); VI Crisis and Unity in Moral Space (Identity and the Good); Epilogue; Bibliography.