God and the Other Ethics and Politics after the Theological Turn

Name: God and the Other Ethics and Politics after the Theological Turn
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ISBN: 9780253222848

ISBN-10: 0253222842

ISBN-13: 9780253222848

Edition: 2011

Authors: J. Aaron Simmons

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List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 4/12/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 392
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English

J. Aaron Simmons is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Furman University, USA. He is the author of God and the Other: Ethics and Politics After the 'Theological Turn' (Indiana, 2011), and the co-editor of Reexamining Deconstruction and Determinate Religion (Duquesne, 2012), and Kierkegaard and Levinas: Ethics, Politics and Religion (Indiana, 2008).



Acknowledgments


List of Abbreviations for Kierkegaard and Levinas Texts


Introduction: God…Again-Again…God



The Problem: Richard Rorty's Critique of Emmanuel Levinas-or, Why Continental Ethics and Philosophy of Religion Face Political Challenges



A Question of Priority-Levinas and Kierkegaard



Hearing Divine Commands and Responding to the Call of the Other: A Reading of Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling



Bi-directional Relationality: Levinasian Readings of the Akedah and the (Dynamic) Ethical in Kierkegaard



An Ontology of Constitutive Responsibility: Kierkegaardian ï¿½Transparencyï¿½ and Levinasian ï¿½Exposureï¿½



Levinasian Subjectivity and Political Critique



Obligation and Transcendence in New Phenomenology



Mapping Twists and ï¿½Turnsï¿½: An Introduction to the Current Debate and Suggestions for Moving Forward



Reconstructive Separatism: On Phenomenology and Theology



Is Continental Philosophy Just Catholicism for Atheists? Critique and Kenosis



Intersections and Applications



The Religious: Maintaining the Paradox-Wittgenstein and Kierkegaard on Postmodern Christianity



The Political: Politics as an Ethico-religious Task-Reconsidering Religion in the Public Square



The Epistemological: Between Trust and Hope-Justification in a Deconstructive Democracy



The Ethical: Expansive Relationality-Levinas, Community, and Climate Change



The Ethico-political: Following Postmodern Exemplars


Notes


Bibliography


Index