Transforming Philosophy and Religion: Love's Wisdom

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Norman Wirzba, Bruce Ellis Benson
Indiana University Press, May 7, 2008 - Philosophy - 263 pages

Norman Wirzba, Bruce Ellis Benson, and an international group of philosophers and theologians describe how various expressions of philosophy are transformed by the discipline of love. What is at stake is how philosophy colors and shapes the way we receive and engage each other, our world, and God. Focusing primarily on the Continental tradition of philosophy of religion, the work presented in this volume engages thinkers such as St. Paul, Meister Eckhart, Kierkegaard, Husserl, Heidegger, Ricoeur, Derrida, Marion, Zizek, Irigaray, and Michele Le Doeuff. Emerging from the book is a complex definition of the wisdom of love which challenges how we think about nature, social justice, faith, gender, creation, medicine, politics, and ethics.

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Contents

Introduction
1
1 The Primacy of Love
15
2 The Economies of Knowledge and Love in Paul
28
On the Complexity of a Life
42
Ricoeurs Reading of the Song of Songs
63
5 Paul Ricoeur and the Possibility of Just Love
73
A Kantian Defense of Kierkegaardian Christian Unconditional Love
84
A QuasiApostolic carte postale on Love in Itself If There Is Such a Thing
103
10 Creatio Ex Amore
155
Zizek and the Christian Legacy
171
12 Love as a Declaration of War? On the Absolute Character of Love in JeanLuc Marions Phenomenology of Eros
185
On the Wisdom of Love
201
An Irigarayan Reading
227
Toward a Kierkegaardian Bioethic
239
List of Contributors
257
Index
259

Reflections on an Agapic Agnosticism
121
9 Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder
142
back cover
265
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