Lexington Books
Pages: 280
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Trim: 6½ x 9
978-1-4985-8476-0 • Hardback • June 2019 • $111.00 • (£85.00)
978-1-4985-8477-7 • eBook • June 2019 • $105.00 • (£81.00)
Anthony Malagon is post-doctoral fellow at the Dominican Studies Institute (CCNY).
Abi Doukhan is associate professor of philosophy at Queens College (CUNY).
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
The Religious Existentialists and the Redemption of Feeling is itself a kind of redemption: a redemption of an important part of the existentialist movement that has been somewhat neglected in recent years. This very well written and in-depth collection of essays takes us back to medieval roots, through Kierkegaard, and on to an impressively wide and cosmopolitan variety of thinkers from the past century and a half-- Marcel, Unamuno, Berdiaev, Rosenzweig, Jaspers, Buber, and many more. There are seventeen chapters in all, making for an extremely fruitful read.
— William L. McBride, Purdue University
It is high time the religious existentialists received the recognition they deserve for their profound insights into the existential nature of human experience. This book provides a much needed corrective to their neglect in the movement, which is often mistakenly defined by the pessimism of Sartre. As the contributors to this volume expertly reveal, we have much to learn from thinkers such as Kierkegaard, Marcel, Scheler, Unamuno, Buber, Levinas, Jaspers, Irigaray, and others, on such defining human concerns as shame, hope and love, religious affirmation, authentic existence, and the key existentialist theme of the relationship between emotion, thought, and experience.
— Brendan Sweetman, Rockhurst University