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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459122403321

Autore

Lammi Walter

Titolo

Gadamer and the question of the divine / Walter Lammi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; New York, : Continuum, 2008

ISBN

1-4725-4654-7

1-282-87124-2

9786612871245

1-4411-0820-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (203 p.)

Collana

Continuum studies in Continental philosophy

Classificazione

08.25

Disciplina

210.92

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages [165]-188) and index

Nota di contenuto

Christian and Greek -- Situating Gadamer philosophically -- Wholes -- Temporality and art -- Art, religious experience, philosophy -- Intellectualism

Introduction -- 1. Christian and Greek -- 2. Situating Gadamer Philosophically -- 3. Wholes -- 4. Temporality and Art -- 5. Art, Religious Experience, Philosophy -- 6. Intellectualism -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Gadamer and the Question of the Divine uncovers a neglected side of Gadamer's thought, namely his life-long concern with the question of the divine. Not only is this an issue of fundamental importance to philosophical hermeneutics, but it also contributes to what Gadamer considered to be the most urgent task of our time - a conceptual dialogue among religions. New grounds for toleration among communities must be found and Gadamer's study of the divine provides both a model and a starting-place for doing so. In setting forth a conceptual narrative for global dialogue about religious transcendence, Gadamer is the pre-eminent twentieth-century philosopher of the divine. Gadamer's study of the divine is an application of philosophical hermeneutics and phenomenological in its descriptions of temporality and the experience of art. Walter Lammi shows how Gadamer provides us with a richly textured study of the



divine that finds its bearings in Heidegger and the Greeks and suggests a path to questions of cosmology, temporality and religious experience