By Norman Wirzba
Norman Wirzba, Bruce Ellis Benson, and a world team of philosophers and theologians describe how numerous expressions of philosophy are reworked via the self-discipline of affection. what's at stake is how philosophy colours and shapes the best way we obtain and have interaction one another, our international, and God. Focusing totally on the Continental culture of philosophy of faith, the paintings provided during this quantity engages thinkers akin to St. Paul, Meister Eckhart, Kierkegaard, Husserl, Heidegger, Ricoeur, Derrida, Marion, Zizek, Irigaray, and Michele Le Doeuff. rising from the publication is a posh definition of the knowledge of affection which demanding situations how we expect approximately nature, social justice, religion, gender, production, drugs, politics, and ethics.
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