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Traditional philosophizing has generally depended upon reason as its primary access to truth. Subjective experiences such as feelings, the passions, and emotions have typically been viewed as secondary to reason, untrustworthy, or both. The Religious Existentialists and the Redemption of Feeling revisits how the movement of existentialism, via the religious existentialists, has contributed to a rethinking of the role of subjective experience, in contrast to the rationalist and idealist traditions, thus reframing the importance of feelings in general for the philosophical enterprise as a whole. Through the considerations of a variety of thinkers, this collection provides a fresh look at the contributions of twentieth-century existentialists, thereby re-contextualizing the very notion of existentialism, offering a powerful and genuine re-evaluation of the significance of subjectivity, and underscoring the continued relevance of the religious existentialists.

Table of Contents

1.“One Who Does Not Taste Does Not Know”: Thomas Aquinas on When Affect Constitutes Knowledge of God – Stephen Chanderbhan

2.Intellectual Ascent and Experience in Dante’s Divine Comedy – Antonio Donato

3.More Than a Feeling: Kierkegaard’s Redemption of Love – Michael Strawser

4.James and Nishida: A Phenomenology of Mystical Consciousness – J. Jeremy Wisnewski

5.Nicholas Berdiaev: Towards a New Humanism, Based on a New Concept of Being Human – Emiliya Ivanova

6.Max Scheler’s Concept of Shame as a Preconceptual Revelation of the Ontological Status of the Human Person – Marc Barnes

7.The Necessity of Feeling in Unamuno and Kant: For the Tragic as for the Beautiful and Sublime – José Luis Fernández

8.The Redemption of Negative Feeling: Miguel de Unamuno – Mariana Alessandri

9.“Not a ‘Feeling’ But a Perceived Mystery”: Martin Buber and the Redemption of Feeling in I-Thou Relationships – Eugene V. Torisky Jr.

10.The Bared Self: Levinas and the Hassidic Tradition – Catherine Chalier

11.Beyond Reason: Emmanuel Levinas on Sensation, Feeling, and Morality – Randolph Wheeler

12.Does Faith Trouble Philosophy? On Franz Rosenzweig’s Method and System – Herman J. Heering

13.The Relevance of Karl Jaspers’s Philosophy Of Religion Today – Anton Hügli

14.Philosophy, Prophecy, and Existential Hope: Marcel in the Broken World of the 21st Century – Jill Hernandez

15.The Unifying Force of Emotion: Human Nature, Community and the World – Nikolaj Zunic

16.Love, Leisure, and Festivity: Josef Pieper on the Passions of Love and the Contemplation of God – Margaret I. Hughes

17.Feeling Distant, Feeling Divine: The Transformative Import of Differences in Nietzsche and Irigaray – James Abordo Ong

Product details

Published Jun 27 2019
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 274
ISBN 9781498584760
Imprint Lexington Books
Dimensions 9 x 6 inches
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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