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Autore |
Shanks Andrew <1954-> |
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The other calling : theology, intellectual vocation and truth / / Andrew Shanks |
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Malden, MA : , : Blackwell Publishing Ltd, , [2007] |
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©2007 |
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ISBN |
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1-281-31062-X |
9786611310622 |
0-470-77410-X |
0-470-77548-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (226 p.) |
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Collana |
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Illuminations--theory and religion |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Philosophy and religion |
Religious thought |
Intellectuals |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Introduction: Why Theology?/What is an Intellectual?; Part I: Philosophy; 1 The Incompleteness of Philosophy Alone; 2 Philosophy and Folk Religion: Two 'Forms' for a Single 'Content'; 3 'Philosophic Politics' (I): Strauss among the 'Moderns' and the 'Postmoderns'; 4 'Philosophic Politics' (II): Strauss and the 'Ancients'; 5 Anti-Philosophical Philosophy (I): Koje` ve's Critique of the 'Cloistered Mind'; 6 Anti-Philosophical Philosophy (II): Epicurus, Rousseau; Part II: Theology; 7 Beyond Metaphysics: 'The Science of the Sacralization of Honesty, in Theist, Catholic Form' |
8 Coleridge's Notion of the 'Clerisy'9 Sacramentally Rooted Thought; 10 'The Conflict': From Amos to Hegel, and Girard; 11 What is an Intellectual?/Why Theology?; Index; |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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What is the true calling of the intellectual? In this provocative new book, Andrew Shanks presents a distinctive fresh answer. The Other Calling is a systematic riposte both to the elitism of philosophy in the heritage of Plato, and to the typical individualism of Plato's philosophic opponents. Here, instead, intellectual integrity is identified with a form of |
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