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Experience and the Absolute: Disputed Questions on the Humanity of Man

Experience and the Absolute: Disputed Questions on the Humanity of Man

Lacoste, Jean-Yves
Raftery-Skehan, Mark

Hardcover

Series: Perspectives in Continental Philosophy

Philosophy

ISBN10: 0823223752
ISBN13: 9780823223756
Publisher: Fordham Univ Pr
Published: Oct 1 2004
Pages: 217
Weight: 1.03
Height: 0.89 Width: 6.26 Depth: 9.22
Language: English

Does the philosophy of Martin Heidegger represent the emergence of a secular anthropology that requires religious thought to redefine the religious dimension in human existence? In this critical response, Lacoste confronts the ultimate definition of human nature, the humanity of the human. He explores that definition through an analysis of the absolute as a phenomenological datum.

Lacoste establishes a conception of human nature that opens possibilities for religious experience and religious identity in view of Heidegger's profound challenge. He develops a phenomenology of the liturgy, and subjects the categories of experience, place, and human existence to careful examination. Making a strong case for the affective nature of religious experience, he sides with Schleiermacher against Hegel in associating religion with affectivity rather than logic. Such affectivity, he claims, can be more rational than reason as framed in Hegelian logic.

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