Rethinking Metaphysics
Blackwell Publishers
Published on 29. March 1995
Book
Paperback/Softback
224 pages
978-0-631-19729-4 (ISBN)
Description
Out of the ashes of the post-modern critique of metaphysics comes a series of important essays which re-think the place of metaphysics in theological and philosophical inquiry. This book ranges across a variety of philosophical and theological traditions, engaging such figures as Plato and Augustine, as well as Gillian Rose, Jacques Derrida, Donald Davidson, C.S. Peirce and Jean Luc Marion. The authors of these essays directly confront a variety of post-modern critiques of metaphysical speculation while, nonetheless, arguing that there is still a significant future for reflection on metaphysical questions. Unified by an agreement about the urgent need to re-think metaphysics rather than a common set of answers, these essays should provoke a wide-ranging and lively discussion among philosophers and theologians.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
234 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-631-19729-4 (9780631197294)
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Content
Introduction, L. Gregory Jones and Stephen E. Fowl; between politics and metaphysics - reflections in the wake of Gillian Rose, Rowan D. Williams; representation, theology and faith, Lewis Ayres; feminist queries and metaphysical musings, Rebecca Chopp; scriptural logic, diagrams for a postcritical metaphysics, Peter Ochs; we shall bear the image of man in heaven - theology and the concept of truth, Bruce D. Marshall; can a gift be given? - prolegomena to a future trinitarian metaphysic, John Milbank.