... led us to write Socrates Tenured: The Institutions of 21st-Century Philosophy.11 That book offered an account of the failure of the late twentieth century attempt at societal relevance, which took the form of “applied philosophy.
In this book, Paolo Diego Bubbio offers an alternative to standard philosophical accounts of the notion of sacrifice, which generally begin with the hermeneutic and postmodern traditions of the twentieth century, starting instead with the ...
Hegel's notion of a 'recognized' unity surely has built into it an irredeemable moment of difference between those united by reciprocal recognition – a difference made explicit in the notion of the unity of opposites, for example.18 To ...
Cf. also Williams, Recognition, 232; and Williams, Tragedy, Recognition, and the Death of God, 237. 54. Jüngel addresses the problem of the separation of Christianity and metaphysics, although he seems dubious about Hegel actually ...
The volume features a previously unpublished letter by René Girard on the relationship between philosophy and religion.
Intellectual Sacrifice and Other Mimetic Paradoxes
God and the Self in Hegel proposes a reconstruction of Hegel's conception of God and analyzes the significance of this reading for Hegel's idealistic metaphysics.
This volume explores the spaces opened during this extended period of post-Kantian thinking for a reconsideration of the place of religion within the project of human self-fashioning.
... Hodge, eds., Mimesis, Movies, and Media: Violence, Desire, and the Sacred, Volume 3 (New York, London, New Delhi, Sydney: Bloomsbury, 2015), 105. 33 Ward cited in Bustillos, “The Bizarre Magic of the 200 Mimetic Theory and Film.
Do we really need philosophy? The present collection of jargon-free essays aims at answering the question of why philosophy matters.