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Ausgabe:

März/2018

Spalte:

253–255

Kategorie:

Philosophie, Religionsphilosophie

Autor/Hrsg.:

Oakes, Kenneth [Ed.]

Titel/Untertitel:

Christian Wisdom Meets Modernity.

Verlag:

London u. a.: Bloomsbury T & T Clark 2016. XVI, 252 S. = Illuminating Modernity. Geb. US$ 122,00. ISBN 978-0-567-66687-1.

Rezensent:

Matthew Levering

This winsome volume contains Christian engagements with di-verse currents of European (continental) philosophical, theological, and cultural modernity. The collection is bookended by two chapters that propose overarching visions of what modern philosophy is and how it should be engaged and appropriated.
In the first chapter, David Walsh contends that in its focus on subjectivity, philosophical modernity has been always been aware »of the unsustainability of truncated reason« (3). Reason cannot be investigated unless it presupposes its own validity. Giving Heidegger the central place in the unfolding of this insight, Walsh argues that the problem is that Heidegger excluded himself from his in-vestigation of »the stretching of thought beyond itself« (4). Levinas ...


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