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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788210703321

Autore

Tunstall Dwayne A

Titolo

Doing philosophy personally [[electronic resource] ] : thinking about metaphysics, theism, and antiblack racism / / Dwayne A. Tunstall

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Fordham University Press, c2013

ISBN

0-8232-5272-8

0-8232-5161-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvi,176 pages )

Collana

American philosophy

Disciplina

142/.78

Soggetti

Existentialism

Racism

Theism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

Tunstall contends that Gabriel Marcel's reflective method is animated by two extraphilosophical commitments. Marcel's first extraphilosophical commitment is to an ethico-religious insight where the highest ontological exigency for human persons is to participate in being. Marcel's second extra-philosophical commitment is to battle the ever-present threat of dehumanisation in late Western modernity. The importance of these two commitments to Marcel's reflective method can be appreciated better if one views it as a teleological suspension of philosophy.