The Mystery of Correspondence Between Human Intelligibility and that of the Physical World - 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 The Mystery of Correspondence Between Human Intelligibility and that of the Physical World write by Kam-Lun Edwin Lee. This book was released on 1992. The Mystery of Correspondence Between Human Intelligibility and that of the Physical World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Subjects of Terror
Subjects of Terror - 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 Subjects of Terror write by . This book was released on 1998-12. Subjects of Terror available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Subjects of Terror uses a reading of the French Romantic poet Gérard de Nerval to elucidate and critique a death-based ideology of subjectivity that has remained in force from Kant to Lacan. This model, despite variations, is distinguished by three principal characteristics: that the subject is the self-sameness of individual experience, that as such it functions like language (or, more specifically, like writing), and that this self-sameness is the annihilation of all individual experiences. Theorized by Hegel, Heidegger, Kojève, and Lacan, this abstract and ultimately impersonal notion of the self was not merely theoretical, however. It was, for example, long instantiated and enforced by the guillotine. Even in its more intimate and less spectacular forms, it provoked strong affective responses, as is evidenced by writers of the Romantic period, from Hugo to Mallarmé, Zola, and Nietzsche. As part of this affective reaction, Nerval's writings exemplify not only how this negative self-construction determines self-understanding but also how it determines self-experience, or, in other words, the way it feels to be a self in this cultural and historical context. That feeling is, fundamentally, terror, and the context is still in many ways our own. The book demonstrates that Nerval's works constitute an aesthetic resistance to that ideology of terror and as such helped open the way for the ethical models of subjectivity that will appear in Kristeva, Aulagnier, and Levinas. Although for two centuries, social, theoretical, and aesthetic forces have coerced individuals into experiencing the world through the morbid filter of their own absolute destruction, the author argues through Nerval for the possibility of an alternate, open-ended model of experience based on the libidinization of language itself.
Mercury
Mercury - 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 Mercury write by . This book was released on 1997. Mercury available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Sense of Creation
The Sense of Creation - 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 The Sense of Creation write by Patrick Masterson. This book was released on 2016-03-03. The Sense of Creation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What kind of experience might help to confirm and make sense of the puzzling belief in divine creation, so central to the main monotheistic religions? Anselm and Aquinas developed a philosophical understanding of 'Creation' as an asymmetrical relationship between the world and God, that is, that the world is really related to God in a relationship of total dependence but God is in no way really related to or modified by this created world. This idea of an asymmetrical relationship is the key concept unifying all aspects of this book which discusses the three main inter-related questions in a philosophical discussion about God -- the question of meaning, the question of existence, and the question of co-existence. The book explores various 'ciphers' of this asymmetrical relationship in our pre-philosophical lived experience. These are experiences such as that of the relationship between our knowledge and what we know, or our sense of obligation to our vulnerable neighbour. It argues that deciphering such experiences helps to make sense of the 'asymmetrical' relation of creation and that it in turn makes sense of them. Masterson argues further that this idea of asymmetrical relationship provides insight into the main questions of philosophy of religion and is an illuminating source of critical dialogue with contemporary Anglo/American and Phenomenological approaches in philosophy of religion.
Christianity and the Soul of the University
Christianity and the Soul of the University - 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 Christianity and the Soul of the University write by Douglas V. Henry. This book was released on 2006-04-01. Christianity and the Soul of the University available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Many universities, founded on the principles of vigorous scholarship and steadfast Christian faith, have abandoned those roots, resulting in confusion, fragmentation, and ideological strife. This book explores the role reflective Christian faith can play in unifying the intellectual life of the university. Contributors including Jean Bethke Elshtain, Richard Hays, John Polkinghorne, Joel Carpenter, and David Lyle Jeffrey analyze the character and practices of an ideal Christian intellectual community.
