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Record Nr.

UNINA9910823302303321

Autore

Westphal Merold

Titolo

In praise of heteronomy : making room for relevation / / Merold Westphal

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, Indiana : , : Indiana University Press, , [2017]

©2017

ISBN

0-253-02661-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxvi, 241 pages)

Collana

Indiana series in the philosophy of religion

Disciplina

210

Soggetti

Religion - Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preface -- 1. Executive and legislative autonomy -- 2. Spinoza's theology -- 3. Spinoza's hermeneutics -- 4. Kant's theology -- 5. Kant's hermeneutics I -- 6. Kant's hermeneutics II -- 7. Hegel's theology I -- 8. Hegel's theology II -- 9. Hegel's hermeneutics -- 10. The inevitability of heteronomy -- 11. Heteronomy as freedom.

Sommario/riassunto

Recognizing the essential heteronomy of postmodern philosophy of religion, Merold Westphal argues against the assumption that human reason is universal, neutral, and devoid of presupposition. Instead, Westphal contends that any philosophy is a matter of faith and the philosophical encounter with theology arises from the very act of thinking. Relying on the work of Spinoza, Kant, and Hegel, Westphal discovers that their theologies render them mutually incompatible and their claims to be the voice of autonomous and universal reason look dubious. Westphal grapples with this plural nature of human thought in the philosophy of religion and he forwards the idea that any appeal to the divine must rest on a historical and phenomenological analysis.