Eros, Wisdom, and Silence - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Eros, Wisdom, and Silence write by James M. Rhodes. This book was released on 2003. Eros, Wisdom, and Silence available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Once in a while one comes across a work that strikes one as the definitive word on the text it examines. This is such a work' - David Walsh. This substantial study presents an in-depth and meticulous study of Plato's treatment of love in Symposium, Phaedrus and the Seventh Letter.
Eros, Wisdom and Silence
Eros, Wisdom and Silence - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Eros, Wisdom and Silence write by Clinton Hart. This book was released on 2017-05-09. Eros, Wisdom and Silence available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Eros, Wisdom, and Silence is a close reading of Plato's Seventh Letter and his dialogues Symposium and Phaedrus, with significant attention also given to Alcibiades I. A book about love, Clinton Hart work was conceived as a conversation and meant to be read side by side with Hart's works and those of his worthy interlocutors. It invites lovers to participate in conversations that move their souls to love, and it also invites the reader to take part in the author's dialogues with Hart and his commentators.
Intensities
Intensities - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Intensities write by Katharine Sarah Moody. This book was released on 2016-05-23. Intensities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Is the affirmation or intensification of life a value in itself? Can life itself be thought? This book breaks new ground in religious and philosophical thinking on the concept of life. It captures a moment in which such thinking is regaining its force and attraction for scholars, and the relevance of thought to social, cultural, political and religious dilemmas about how and why to live. Bringing together original contributions by highly distinguished authors in the field of Continental philosophy of religion, including John D. Caputo, Pamela Sue Anderson, Philip Goodchild, Alison Martin and Don Cupitt, this book has a distinctiveness based on its refusal to sit easily within either secular philosophical or theological approaches. The concept of life mobilizes a thinking that crosses narrow disciplinary boundaries, whilst retaining philosophical rigour. Three sections explore the various dimensions of the question of life: The Politics of Life'; 'Life and the Limits of Thinking'; and 'Life and Spirituality'. This book will be of interest to a broad range of readers in the humanities, particularly to philosophers, theologians, cultural theorists and all those interested in philosophical or theological debates on the concept of life.
Erotic Wisdom
Erotic Wisdom - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Erotic Wisdom write by Gary Alan Scott. This book was released on 2008-12-18. Erotic Wisdom available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A lively and highly readable commentary on one of Plato’s most beloved dialogues.
Toward a Theology of Eros
Toward a Theology of Eros - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Toward a Theology of Eros write by Virginia Burrus. This book was released on 2009-08-25. Toward a Theology of Eros available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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? Avoiding the well-worn path of sexual moralizing while also departing decisively from Anders Nygren’s influential insistence that Christian agape must have nothing to do with worldly eros, this book explores what is still largely uncharted territory in the realm of theological erotics. The ascetic, the mystical, the seductive, the ecstatic—these are the places where the divine and the erotic may be seen to converge and love and desire to commingle. Inviting and performing a mutual seduction of disciplines, the volume brings philosophers, historians, biblical scholars, and theologians into a spirited conversation that traverses the limits of conventional orthodoxies, whether doctrinal or disciplinary. It seeks new openings for the emergence of desire, love, and pleasure, while challenging common understandings of these terms. It engages risk at the point where the hope for salvation paradoxically endangers the safety of subjects—in particular, of theological subjects—by opening them to those transgressions of eros in which boundaries, once exceeded, become places of emerging possibility. The eighteen chapters, arranged in thematic clusters, move fluidly among and between premodern and postmodern textual traditions—from Plato to Emerson, Augustine to Kristeva, Mechthild to Mattoso, the Shulammite to Molly Bloom, the Zohar to the Da Vinci Code. In so doing, they link the sublime reaches of theory with the gritty realities of politics, the boundless transcendence of God with the poignant transience of materiality.
