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The World after the End of the World
(May 2020)
A Spectro-Poetics
Kas Saghafi - Author
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Examines themes of loss and mourning in the late work of Derrida.
In this book, Kas Saghafi argues that the notion of “the end the world” in Derrida’s late work is not a theological or cosmological matter, but a meditation on mourning and the death of the other. He examines this and several other tightly knit motifs in Derrida’s work: mourning, survival, the phantasm, the event, and most significantly, t...(Read More) |
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Merleau-Ponty and Nishida
(October 2019)
Artistic Expression as Motor-Perceptual Faith
Adam Loughnane - Author
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Places the phenomenologies of Merleau-Ponty and Nishida into dialogue and uncovers a demand for a motor-perceptual form of faith in both philosophers’ meditations on artistic expression.
In Merleau-Ponty and Nishida, Adam Loughnane initiates a dialogue between two of the twentieth century’s most important phenomenologists from the Eastern and Western philosophical worlds. He guides the reader through the comp...(Read More) |
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The Lily's Tongue
(October 2019)
Figure and Authority in Kierkegaard's Lily Discourses
Frances Maughan-Brown - Author
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Examines four discourses by Kierkegaard, arguing that they play a critical and surprising role in his oeuvre and contribute to the philosophy of figural language.
How do texts speak with authority? That is the question at the heart of Kierkegaard’s theory and practice of “indirect communication.” None of Kierkegaard’s texts respond to this question more concisely and powerfully than the four discourses he...(Read More) |
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The Ages of the World (1811)
(April 2019)
F. W. J. Schelling - Author
Joseph P. Lawrence - Translated and with an introduction by
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The first English translation of the first of three versions of this unfinished work by Schelling.
In 1810, after establishing a reputation as Europe’s most prolific philosopher, F. W. J. Schelling embarked on his most ambitious project, The Ages of the World. For over a decade he produced multiple drafts of the work before finally conceding its failure, a “failure” in which Heidegger, Jaspers, Voegelin...(Read More) |
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The Manifest and the Revealed
(December 2018)
A Phenomenology of Kenosis
Adam Y. Wells - Author
Kevin Hart - Foreword by
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Offers a new phenomenological method for biblical interpretation that opens up the possibility of an absolute science of scripture.
What is scripture and how does it function? Is there a “scientific” way to understand its meaning? In answer, Adam Wells proposes a phenomenological approach to scripture that radicalizes both phenomenology and its relation to Christianity. By reading the “kenōsis hymn”...(Read More) |
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Remnants of Hegel
(November 2018)
Remains of Ontology, Religion, and Community
Félix Duque - Author
Nicholas Walker - Translator
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An original philosophical exploration of the limits of Hegel’s thought.
In the preface to the second edition of the Science of Logic, Hegel speaks of an instinctive and unconscious logic whose forms and determinations “always remain imperceptible and incapable of becoming objective even as they emerge in language.” In spite of Hegel’s ambitions to provide a philosophical system that might transcend...(Read More) |
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The Adventure of Weak Theology
(November 2018)
Reading the Work of John D. Caputo through Biographies and Events
Štefan Štofaník - Author
John D. Caputo - Afterword
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Štofaník provides a unique, personal reading of weak theology and tries to inhabit the gap between it and its “founder,” John D. Caputo.
In this distinctive exploration of John D. Caputo’s work, Štefan Štofaník traces Caputo’s journey of philosophical discovery from his earlier, more conventional academic writings to his later, almost confessional works of weak theology a...(Read More) |
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The Asymptote of Love
(November 2018)
From Mundane to Religious to God's Love
James Kellenberger - Author
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Discusses the complexities and paradoxes of love as represented in the history of Western philosophy and Christianity.
In The Asymptote of Love, James Kellenberger develops a theory of religious love that resists essentialist definitions of the term and brings into conversation historical debates on love in Western philosophy and Christian theology. He argues that if love can be likened to a mathematical asymptote, which is a ...(Read More) |
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Effing the Ineffable
(October 2018)
Existential Mumblings at the Limits of Language
Wesley J. Wildman - Author
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A meditation on how religious language tries to limn the liminal, conceive the inconceivable, speak the unspeakable, and say the unsayable.
In Effing the Ineffable, Wesley J. Wildman confronts the human obsession with ultimate reality and our desire to conceive and speak of this reality through religious language, despite the seeming impossibility of doing so. Each chapter is a meditative essay on an aspect of life that,...(Read More) |
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Atmospheres of Breathing
(April 2018)
Lenart Škof - Editor
Petri Berndtson - Editor
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Attempts to think anew about philosophical questions from the perspective of breath and breathing.
As a physiological or biological matter, breath is mostly considered to be mechanical and thoughtless. By expanding on the insights of many religions and therapeutic practices, which emphasize the cultivation of breath, the contributors argue that breath should be understood as fundamentally and comprehensively intertwined with hum...(Read More) |
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