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Luigi Pareyson (1918-1991) was a seminal Italian
philosopher. As a professor at the University of Turin he
had many subsequently famous students, including Gianni
Vattimo and Umberto Eco. The author of more than twenty
ground-breaking books, Pareyson’s work first focused on
Existentialism and then on the notion of interpretation.
Together with Gadamer and Ricoeur, he can be considered one
of the fathers of Hermeneutics This anthology represents the
first English translation of his writings.
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…the first thorough study of
the relationship between nihilism and the postmodern
condition. While the nihilism of postmodernity is
often gestured towards, it is rarely examined in
detail. Moreover, postmodern thinkers are often
dismissed as nihilists themselves. This book
challenges this received notion -
which shapes much
contemporary theory - by uncovering the diagnosis
of, and
critical response
to, nihilism in three major
postmodern thinkers: Lyotard, Baudrillard, and
Vattimo.
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In Faith,
Reason and the Natural Sciences: The Challenge of the
Natural Sciences in the Work of Theologians the
author attempts to go beyond Non-overlapping Magisteria,
showing why the sciences constitute a fruitful challenge for
theologians’ work, and the insights of Judaeo-Christian
Revelation constitute a source of understanding for
scientists’ ultimate questions.
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Impossible
Reading
compares polemics against idols in both the Hebrew Bible and
the Apostle Paul to argue that to welcome diversity requires
shunning idolatry. The author explores how these polemics inform
the approach to diversity in works by Sor Juana Inés de la
Cruz, Herman Melville, and Alfredo Véa.
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The
End of Literature
is an essay in originary thinking. It argues that
the starting point for all fundamental reflection on
the human, whether scientific, mythical, aesthetic,
or philosophical, is the hypothetical event of human
origin. Drawing on the groundbreaking work of Eric
Gans, the author compares the latter’s idea of the
“originary hypothesis” to rival research strategies
in the humanities and human sciences.
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Of the many
available books that celebrate the Bible, Shakespeare, and
Charles Darwin,
The
Evolutionary Sequence
is the first study to show their continuity....
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Opening Doors
begins with a polemical introduction in which Watson
explains where he agrees with—also, more importantly, where
he differs from—the currently popular New Atheism (Dawkins,
Hitchens etc.).
Opening Doors
may be the most provocative intervention yet made in the
context of the recent philosophical turn to religion.
Reviving the case made by the now largely forgotten literary
critic, F.R.Leavis, for the novelists D.H.Lawrence and
Joseph Conrad, Watson brings these writers into a
conversation about religion with Derrida, Levinas and
Agamben, arguing that when read together these most unlikely
bedfellows help us revitalize our thinking.
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New
in 2010
Beyond Sovereignty
D. G. Leahy (Spring, 2010)
Romanesque Signs
Stephen Nichols (Spring, 2010)
Nihilism in Postmodernity
Ashley Woodward (January, 2010)
Existence, Interpretation, Freedom
Luigi Pareyson (January, 2010)
Reviving Antigone
Kathrin H. Rosenfield (Spring, 2010)
The Sciences and the Fullness of Rationality
Alberto Strumia (Spring, 2010)
Dynamics of Legitimation
Flavio Cassinari (Spring, 2010)
Mathias Carvalho's Louis Riel: Religion, Writing, and
Colonial Resistance
Jennifer Reid (Spring, 2010)
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