Overview
Engaging some of the most recent and more urgent issues in the philosophy of religion today, in this lively book Richard Kearney proposes that instead of thinking of God as ""actual,"" God might best be thought of as the possibility of the impossible. By pulling away from biblical perceptions of God and breaking with dominant theological traditions, Kearney draws on the work of Ricoeur, Levinas, Derrida, Heidegger, and others to provide a surprising and original answer to who or what God might be. For Kearney, the intersecting dimensions of impossibility propel religious experience and faith in new directions, notably toward views of God that are unforeseeable, unprogrammable, and uncertain. Important themes such as the phenomenology of the persona, the meaning of the unity of God, God and desire, notions of existence and differance, and faith in philosophy are taken up in this penetrating and original work. Kearney's is one of the more distinctive interpretive voices adding to discussions and debates at the forefront of current thinking in the philosophy of religion.
Full Product Details
Author: Richard Kearney
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Imprint: Indiana University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 1.30cm
, Length: 23.50cm
Weight: 0.268kg
ISBN: 9780253214898
ISBN 10: 0253214890
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 03 October 2001
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Undergraduate
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
Kearney is one of the most exciting thinkers in the English-speaking world of continental philosophy... and joins hands with its fundamental project, what-or who-comes after the God of metaphysics? - John D. Caputo
""Kearney is one of the most exciting thinkers in the English-speaking world of continental philosophy... and joins hands with its fundamental project, ""what-or who-comes after the God of metaphysics?"" --John D. Caputo
Kearney is one of the most exciting thinkers in the English-speaking world of continental philosophy... and joins hands with its fundamental project, what-or who-comes after the God of metaphysics? --John D. Caputo
Author Information
Richard Kearney is Professor of Philosophy at Boston College and University College Dublin. He is the author of numerous books on modern philosophy and culture, including Dialogues with Contemporary Continental Thinkers, The Wake of Imagination, and The Poetics of Modernity, as well as two novels and a volume of poetry. His books have been translated in many European languages. In recent years he has been engaged in the debates on ethics, aesthetics and religion with such key continental philosophers as Ricoeur, Derrida, Kristeva, Levinas, and Caputo.
