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Faith And The Sublation Of Modernity: Kierkegaard And The Transformation Of Fideism, James Mark Shields
Faith And The Sublation Of Modernity: Kierkegaard And The Transformation Of Fideism, James Mark Shields
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This article retraces the “genealogy” of the fideist perspective in philosophy as well as literature, especially within the writings of Søren Kierkegaard and the novel Don Quixote. It contends that a demythologized perspective of the fideist-humanist sort, based upon Erasmian tolerance and intellectual creativity and updated with the insights of post-analytic theory (e.g., the work of Alasdair MacIntyre, Richard Rorty, and Jeffrey Stout), without revoking the vocabulary of transcendence, can reinforce the weathered but still valuable post-Enlightenment moral vocabulary, and can reiterate the humaneness of liberal hope without undue encumbrance from the dogmatic baggage of traditional theological jargon and metaphysics.
The Responsibility Of Thinking In Dark Times: Hannah Arendt Versus Hans Jonas, Lawrence A. Vogel
The Responsibility Of Thinking In Dark Times: Hannah Arendt Versus Hans Jonas, Lawrence A. Vogel
Philosophy Faculty Publications
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Emmanuel Levinas And The Judaism Of The Good Samaritan, Lawrence A. Vogel
Emmanuel Levinas And The Judaism Of The Good Samaritan, Lawrence A. Vogel
Philosophy Faculty Publications
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Ad Jacob Taubes, Babette Babich
Ad Jacob Taubes, Babette Babich
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Assassins And Crusaders: Nietzsche After 9/11, Gary Shapiro
Assassins And Crusaders: Nietzsche After 9/11, Gary Shapiro
Philosophy Faculty Publications
Nietzsche describes his four Unzeitgemiisse Betrachtungen as Attentate, assassination attempts. The first of these, his self-described "duel" with David Friedrich Strauss, published in 1873, begins with the question of war and time. It is untimely or out of season insofar as it challenges the smugness of the cultural philistines who take Germany's victory in the Franco-Prussian War to be a testament to the superiority of German culture. As those in the United States might have learned after the end of the Cold War and after the first Gulf War, "a great victory is a great danger," and we might …