Religion and Revelation after Auschwitz

Balazs M. Mezei is Professor of Philosophy at Peter Pazmany Catholic University, Hungary. He has widely published on the philosophy of religion, phenomenology, and literary criticism. He is the author of the two-volume Philosophy of Religion (2005, in Hungarian) and, with Barry Smith, The Four Phases of Philosophy (1998).

[T]he most precise, searching, and in-depth investigation of a subject whose importance cannot be overestimated if philosophy is to take seriously the existential challenge of Auschwitz. A graceful, careful and lucid discussion... Mezei’s outstanding narrative is unprecedented in scope and detail and will shape future philosophical debates on the relationship between history, personhood, and our individual and collective futures.

• 1. Introduction: Religion and Revelation After Auschwitz / I. Religion / 2. The Crisis of Religion / 3. Theistic Intentionality / 4. Brentano and Husserl on History / 5. The Metaphysics of the Human Body / II. Revelation / 6. Europe and Revelation / 7. Two Models of Revelation / 8. Revelation without Belief /9. Divine Revelation and Human Person / 10. Revelation in the Context of Cultures / III. History / 11. A Phenomenology of Revelation / 12. Aristotle and Nietzsche / 13. Boethius and Human Persons / 14. Austrian Theism and the Catholic Principle / 15. Hildebrand on Evil / IV. The Survival of the University /16. The Crisis of University / 17. Religion, Ethics, and Politics / 18. Art and Religion / 19. The Rehellenization of Reason / 20. Catholic Philosophy in the New Millennium / Bibliography / Index