Is There a Sabbath for Thought? : Between Religion and Philosophy Paperback / softback
by William Desmond
Part of the Perspectives in Continental Philosophy series
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Seeking to renew an ancient companionship between the philosophical and the religious, this book's meditative chapters dwell on certain elemental experiences or happenings that keep the soul alive to the enigma of the divine.
William Desmond engages the philosophical work of Pascal, Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Shestov, and Soloviev, among others, and pursues with a philosophical mindfulness what is most intimate in us, yet most universal: sleep, poverty, imagination, courage and witness, reverence, hatred and love, peace and war.
Being religious has to do with that intimate universal, beyond arbitrary subjectivism and reductionist objectivism.
In this book, he attempts to look at religion with a fresh and open mind, asking how philosophy might itself stand up to some of the questions posed to it by religion, not just how religion might stand up to the questions posed to it by philosophy.
Desmond tries to pursue a new and different policy, one faithful to the light of this dialogue.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:380 pages
- Publisher:Fordham University Press
- Publication Date:01/05/2005
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- ISBN:9780823223732
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:380 pages
- Publisher:Fordham University Press
- Publication Date:01/05/2005
- Category:
- ISBN:9780823223732
