Overview

Playing on the various meanings of ""Seeing Through God"", John Llewelyn explores the act of looking in the wake of the death of the transcendent God of metaphysics. Taking up strategies developed by the Western sciences for seeing and observing, he finds that the so-called tough-minded practices of the physical sciences are very much at home with the so-called tender-minded practices of Eastern religions. Instead of opposing East and West, Llewelyn thinks that blending these spheres leads to a better understanding of aesthetic experience and imagination. In this blending, he presents a phenomenological description of the imagination and the ethical and religious dimensions of the act of imagining. ""Seeing Through God"" touches on themes of salvation, the preservation of the environment, and the role of God in our temptation to dishonor the earth. This unique book presents Llewelyn as one of the leading interpreters of the environmental phenomenology movement.

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Author:   John Llewelyn
Publisher:   Indiana University Press
Imprint:   Indiana University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.340kg
ISBN:  

9780253216397

ISBN 10:   0253216397
Pages:   216
Publication Date:   30 January 2004
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Awaiting stock  

Table of Contents

Preliminary Table of Contents: Preface Acknowledgments Prologomena To Any Future Phenomenological Ecology What is phenomenology?; Ecologies and environments; Performance; Justice adjusted; Ancillae philosophiae 1.Gaia Scienza The Gaia Hypothesis; Morally shallow contractualism; Morally deep eudaemonism; Protogaia; Geoethics East and West 2. Occidental Orientation Descartes defended; Bacon befriended; Particulars 3. On the Saying that Philosophy Begins in Wonder Greek Greeks; German Greeks; The gods are also even here 4. Belongings Footwear; Fiability; Safety from safety 5. A Footnote in the History of Phusis Between a rock and a hard place; The outcast; Animation; Metaphysics; Readiness to foot; Raisins and almonds; Thanks 6. Touching Earth Maxwell's maxim; Witnessing earth; Figures and fingers; Deposition; Dirt; Nature and art; Sacrilege 7. Seeing Through God Only a god; The manufacture of corpses; Divinity; Divination; Salvation as salutation 8. Regarding Regarding Paint, therein lies salvation; The tears of things; Aslant of light 9. Seeing Through Seeing Through Landscape and inscape; Cosmic cleansing; Theological vandalism; How things look Notes Index

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"""Seeing Through God is a major work - perhaps even the major work - by one of the most original voices in Continental philosophy today."" --John Sallis"

Seeing Through God is a major work - perhaps even the major work - by one of the most original voices in Continental philosophy today. --John Sallis

""Seeing Through God is a major work - perhaps even the major work - by one of the most original voices in Continental philosophy today."" --John Sallis

Author Information

John Llewelyn is Emeritus Reader in Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh. He is author of Appositions of Jacques Derrida and Emmanuel Levinas (IUP, 2002.)

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