The phenomenology of prayer [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Bruce Ellis Benson and Norman Wirzba

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910777654803321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : Fordham University Press, 2005
• ISBN: 0-8232-4827-5; 0-8232-3579-3; 0-8232-2497-X; 1-4237-9644-6
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (311 p.)
• Collana: Perspectives in continental philosophy, , 1089-3938 ; ; no. 46
• Altri autori (Persone): BensonBruce Ellis <1960->; WirzbaNorman
• Disciplina: 204/.3
• Soggetti: Prayer; Phenomenology
• 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 and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Prayer as the posture of the decentered self / Merold Westphal -- Who prays? Levinas on irremissible responsibility / Jill Robbins -- Becoming what we pray: passion's gentler resolutions / Edward F. Mooney -- Prayer as kenosis / James R. Mensch -- The prayers and tears of Friedrich Nietzsche / Bruce Ellis Benson -- Attention and responsibility: the work of prayer / Norman Wirzba -- Irigaray's Between East and West: breath, pranayama, and the phenomenology of prayer / Cleo McNelly Kearns -- Heidegger and the prospect of a phenomenology of prayer / Benjamin Crowe -- Edith Stein: prayer and interiority / Terrence C. Wright -- "Too deep for words": the conspiracy of a divine "soliloquy" / B. Keith Putt -- Plus de secret: the paradox of prayer / Brian Treanor -- Praise--pure and personal? Jean-Luc Marion's phenomenologies of prayer / Christina M. Gschwandtner -- The saving or sanitizing of prayer: the problem of the sans in Derrida's account of prayer / Mark Gedney -- How (not) to find God in all things: Derrida, Levinas, and St. Ignatius of Loyola on learning how to pray for the impossible / Michael F. Andrews -- Prayer and incarnation: a homiletical reflection / Lissa McCullough -- The infinite supplicant: on ; a limit and a prayer / Mark Cauchi -- Proslogion / Philip Goodchild.
• Sommario/riassunto: This collection of groundbreaking essays considers the many dimensions of prayer, and takes up the meaning of prayer from within a uniquely phenomenological point of view.