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How Theology Shaped Twentieth-Century Philosophy
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How Theology Shaped Twentieth-Century Philosophy
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Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Frank B. Farrell
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Physical Properties |
Format:Hardback | Pages:272 | Dimensions(mm): Height 235,Width 157 |
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Category/Genre | History of Western philosophy Christian theology Judaism - theology |
ISBN/Barcode |
9781108491716
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Classifications | Dewey:190 |
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Audience | Professional & Vocational | |
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Worked examples or Exercises
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Publishing Details |
Publisher |
Cambridge University Press
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Imprint |
Cambridge University Press
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Publication Date |
14 March 2019 |
Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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Description
Medieval theology had an important influence on later philosophy which is visible in the empiricisms of Russell, Carnap, and Quine. Other thinkers, including McDowell, Kripke, and Dennett, show how we can overcome the distorting effects of that theological ecosystem on our accounts of the nature of reality and our relationship to it. In a different philosophical tradition, Hegel uses a secularized version of Christianity to argue for a kind of human knowledge that overcomes the influences of late-medieval voluntarism, and some twentieth-century thinkers, including Benjamin and Derrida, instead defend a Jewish-influenced notion of the religious sublime. Frank B. Farrell analyzes and connects philosophers of different eras and traditions to show that modern philosophy has developed its practices on a terrain marked out by earlier theological and religious ideas, and considers how different philosophers have both embraced, and tried to escape from, those deep-seated patterns of thought.
Author Biography
Frank B. Farrell is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Purchase College, State University of New York. His publications include Subjectivity, Realism, and Postmodernism: The Recovery of the World in Recent Philosophy (Cambridge, 1994) and Why Does Literature Matter? (2004).
Reviews'This wide-ranging and fascinating book should be required reading for anyone who is interested in placing twentieth-century philosophy in intellectual history, not just the history of philosophy.' John McDowell, University of Pittsburgh
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