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Filosofie en godsdienst --- Godsdienst en filosofie --- Philosophie et religion --- Philosophy and religion --- Religion and philosophy --- Religion et philosophie --- Religious studies --- Violence --- Religious aspects --- Philosophy and religion. --- Religious aspects. --- Violence (in religion, folklore, etc.) --- Christianity and philosophy --- Religion --- Moral and religious aspects --- Violence - Religious aspects

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What, at this historical moment "after Auschwitz," still remains of the questions traditionally asked by theology? What now is theology's minimal degree? This magisterial study, the first extended comparison of the writings of Theodor W. Adorno and Emmanuel Levinas, explores remnants and echoes of religious forms in these thinkers' critiques of secular reason, finding in the work of both a "theology in pianissimo" constituted by the trace of a transcendent other. The author analyzes, systematizes, and formalizes this idea of an other of reason. In addition, he frames these thinkers' innovative projects within the arguments of such intellectual heirs as J?rgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida, defending their work against later accusations of "performative contradiction" (by Habermas) or "empiricism" (by Derrida) and in the process casting important new light on those later writers as well. Attentive to rhetorical and rational features of Adorno's and Levinas's texts, his investigations of the concepts of history, subjectivity, and language in their writings provide a radical interpretation of their paradoxical modes of thought and reveal remarkable and hitherto unsuspected parallels between their philosophical methods, parallels that amount to a plausible way of overcoming certain impasses in contemporary philosophical thinking. In Adorno, this takes the form of a dialectical critique of dialectics in Levinas, that of a phenomenological critique of phenomenology, each of which sheds new light on ancient and modern questions of metaphysics, ethics, and aesthetics. For the English-language publication, the author has extensively revised and updated the prize-winning German version.

Godsdienstfilosofie. --- Deconstructie. --- Dialectiek. --- Rationalisme. --- Transcendence (Philosophy) --- Rationalism. --- Philosophical theology. --- Dialectic. --- Deconstruction. --- L©evinas, Emmanuel --- Adorno, Theodor W., --- L©evinas, Emmanuel. --- Theology, Philosophical --- Philosophy and religion --- Theology, Doctrinal --- Knowledge, Theory of --- Religion --- Belief and doubt --- Deism --- Free thought --- Realism --- Criticism --- Semiotics and literature --- Polarity --- Polarity (Philosophy) --- Philosophy --- Phenomenology & Existentialism

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This work revisits the famous question posed by critics from Sainte-Beuve and T.S. Eliot to J.M. Coetzee to ask how classics emanate from postcolonial histories and societies. Exploring definitive trends in 20th and 21st century English and Anglophone literature, Mukherjee demonstrates the relevance of the question of the classic for the global politics of identifying and perpetuating so-called core texts.

English literature --- Postcolonialism in literature. --- Canon (Literature) --- Criticism. --- Criticism --- Evaluation of literature --- Literary criticism --- Literature --- Rhetoric --- Aesthetics --- Classics, Literary --- Literary canon --- Literary classics --- Best books --- British literature --- Inklings (Group of writers) --- Nonsense Club (Group of writers) --- Order of the Fancy (Group of writers) --- History and criticism. --- Technique --- Evaluation --- History and criticism --- Postcolonialism in literature --- anno 1900-1999 --- anno 2000-2099 --- Canon (Literature). --- Englisch. --- English literature. --- Kanon. --- Postkoloniale Literatur. --- 1900-2099.

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What, at this historical moment "after Auschwitz," still remains of the questions traditionally asked by theology? What now is theology's minimal degree? This magisterial study, the first extended comparison of the writings of Theodor W. Adorno and Emmanuel Levinas, explores remnants and echoes of religious forms in these thinkers' critiques of secular reason, finding in the work of both a "theology in pianissimo" constituted by the trace of a transcendent other. The author analyzes, systematizes, and formalizes this idea of an other of reason. In addition, he frames these thinkers' innovative projects within the arguments of such intellectual heirs as Jurgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida, defending their work against later accusations of "performative contradiction" (by Habermas) or "empiricism" (by Derrida) and in the process casting important new light on those later writers as well. Attentive to rhetorical and rational features of Adorno's and Levinas's texts, his investigations of the concepts of history, subjectivity, and language in their writings provide a radical interpretation of their paradoxical modes of thought and reveal remarkable and hitherto unsuspected parallels between their philosophical methods, parallels that amount to a plausible way of overcoming certain impasses in contemporary philosophical thinking. In Adorno, this takes the form of a dialectical critique of dialectics; in Levinas, that of a phenomenological critique of phenomenology, each of which sheds new light on ancient and modern questions of metaphysics, ethics, and aesthetics. For the English-language publication, the author has extensively revised and updated the prize-winning German version.

Deconstruction. --- Dialectic. --- Philosophical theology. --- Rationalism. --- Transcendence (Philosophy) --- Transcendence (Philosophy). --- Deconstruction --- Dialectic --- Philosophical theology --- Rationalism --- Philosophy --- Knowledge, Theory of --- Religion --- Belief and doubt --- Deism --- Free thought --- Realism --- Theology, Philosophical --- Philosophy and religion --- Theology, Doctrinal --- Polarity --- Polarity (Philosophy) --- Criticism --- Semiotics and literature --- Adorno, Theodor W., --- Lévinas, Emmanuel. --- Wiesengrund, Theodor, --- Wiesengrund-Adorno, Theodor, --- Adorno, Teodor V., --- Adorŭno, --- אדורנו, תאודור --- אדורנו, ת. ו. --- Adorno, Th. W. --- Lévinas, Emmanuel. --- Lévinas, E. --- Leṿinas, ʻImanuʼel --- Levinas, Emani︠u︡el --- לוינס׳ עמנואל --- לוינס, עמנואל --- Līfīnās, Īmānwāl --- ليفيناس، إيمانوال --- Adorno, Theodor W. --- Lévinas, Emmanuel --- Adorno, Theodor W, - 1903-1969 --- Lévinas, Emmanuel --- Adorno, Theodor Wiesengrund, 1903-1969 --- Levinas, Emmanuel, 1906-1995

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How the West Was Won contains articles in three main areas of the humanities. It focuses on various aspects of literary imagination, with essays ranging from Petrarch to Voltaire; on the canon, with essays on western history as one of shifting cultural horizons and ideals, and including censorship; and on the Christian Middle Ages, when an interesting combination of religion and culture stimulated the monastic and intellectual experiments of Anselm of Canterbury and Peter Abelard. The volume is held together by the method of persistent questioning, in the tradition of the western church father and icon of the self Augustine, to discover what the values are that drive the culture of the West: where do they come from and what is their future? This volume is a Festschrift for Burcht Pranger of the University of Amsterdam.

History of civilization --- Literature --- anno 500-1499 --- Western world --- Canon (Literature) --- Christian literature. --- Christianity and literature. --- Literature, Medieval. --- Europe --- Intellectual life. --- Canon (Literature). --- Europe -- Intellectual life. --- Christian literature --- Christianity and literature --- Literature, Medieval --- Religion --- Philosophy & Religion --- Christianity --- European literature --- Medieval literature --- Christian writings --- Religious literature --- Literature and Christianity --- Classics, Literary --- Literary canon --- Literary classics --- Best books --- Criticism --- History and criticism