Overview
What is the role of love in opening and sustaining the temporal worlds we inhabit? One of the leading scholars in philosophy and the history of religious thought, Thomas A. Carlson here traces this question through Christian theology, twentieth-century phenomenological and deconstructive philosophy, and nineteenth-century individualism. Revising Augustine’s insight that when we love a place, we dwell there in the heart, Carlson also pointedly resists lines of thought that seek to transcend loss and its grief by loving all things within the realm of the eternal. Through masterful readings of Heidegger, Derrida, Marion, Nancy, Emerson, and Nietzsche, Carlson shows that the fragility and sorrow of mortal existence in its transience do not, in fact, contradict love, but instead empower love to create a world.
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Author: Thomas A. Carlson
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Imprint: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226617367
ISBN 10: 022661736
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 03 April 2019
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Format: Hardback
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Reviews
With the World at Heart is masterful. With exceptional clarity, conceptual rigor, and creative thinking, Carlson brings one phase of the continental philosophy of religion to culmination and opens up new avenues for future work. --John McCarthy, Loyola University Chicago
This is a work of Continental philosophy at its best--erudite, historical, analytical, and insightful. In deep dialogue with some of the most interesting thinkers of the past half century, Carlson offers nothing less than a 'philosophy of spirit' for our age, where spirit appears as the world-forming power of love as well as the love-preserving power of world. A major contribution to our understanding of human finitude in its existential openness to time and world. --Robert Pogue Harrison, author of Juvenescence: A Cultural History of Our Age Thomas Carlson's With the World at Heart is masterful. With exceptional clarity, conceptual rigor, and creative thinking, Carlson brings one phase of the Continental philosophy of religion to culmination and opens up new avenues for future work. --Tyler Roberts, author of Encountering Religion: Responsibility and Criticism after Secularism
Author Information
Thomas A. Carlson is professor of religious studies and founding director of the Humanities and Social Change Center at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of Indiscretion: Finitude and the Naming of God and The Indiscrete Image: Infinitude and Creation of the Human, both also published by the University of Chicago Press.
