Saintly influence : Edith Wyschogrod and the possibilities of philosophy of religion / / edited by Eric Boynton and Martin Kavka

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910821745603321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : Fordham University Press, 2009
• ISBN: 0-8232-3561-0; 1-282-69909-1; 9786612699092; 0-8232-3818-0; 0-8232-3089-9
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (343 p.)
• Collana: Perspectives in Continental philosophy
• Altri autori (Persone): WyschogrodEdith; BoyntonEric; KavkaMartin
• Disciplina: 191
• Soggetti: Religion - Philosophy; Continental philosophy
• 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: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- The Uncertainty Principle -- The Impossible Possibility of Ethics -- The Empty Suitcase as Rainbow -- Hosting the Stranger and the Pilgrim -- ‘‘God,’’ Gods, God -- The Name of God in Levinas’s Philosophy -- Kenotic Overflow and Temporal Transcendence -- Tribute to Derrida -- Hearing the Voices of the Dead -- Memory and Violence, or Genealogies of Remembering -- The Historian and the Messianic ‘‘Now’’ -- Saints and the Heterological Historian -- An Exercise in Upbuilding -- Notes -- Contributors -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Since the publication of her first book, Emmanuel Levinas: The Problem of Ethical Metaphysics, in 1974-the first book about Levinas published in English-Edith Wyschogrod has been at the forefront of the fields of Continental philosophy and philosophy of religion. Her work has crossed many disciplinary boundaries, making peregrinations from phenomenology and moral philosophy to historiography, the history of religions (both Western and non-Western), aesthetics, and the ; philosophy of biology. In all of these discourses, she has sought to cultivate an awareness of how the self is situated and influenced, as well as the ways in which a self can influence others.In this volume, twelve scholars examine and display the influence of Wyschogrod's work in essays that take up the thematics of influence in a variety of contexts: Christian theology, the saintly behavior of the villagers of Le Chambon sur Lignon, the texts of the medieval Jewish mystic Abraham Abulafia, the philosophies of Levinas, Derrida, and Benjamin, the practice of intellectual history, the cultural memory of the New Testament, and pedagogy.In response, Wyschogrod shows how her interlocutors have brought to light her multiple authorial personae and have thus marked the ambiguity of selfhood, its position at the nexus of being influenced by and influencing others.