How should we understand religion, and what place should it hold, in an age in which metaphysics has come into disrepute? The metaphysical assumptions which supported traditional theologies are no longer widely accepted, but it is not clear how this 'end of metaphysics' should be understood, nor what implications it ought to have for our understanding of religion. At the same time there is renewed interest in the sacred and the divine in disciplines as varied as philosophy, psychology, literature, history, anthropology, and cultural studies.
In this volume, leading philosophers in the United States and Europe address the decline of metaphysics and the space which this decline has opened for non-theological understandings of religion. The contributors include Richard Rorty, Charles Taylor, Jean-Luc Marion, Gianni Vattimo, Hubert Dreyfus, Robert Pippin, John Caputo, Adriaan Peperzak, Leora Batnitzky, and Mark Wrathall.
| ISBN: | 9780521824989 |
| Publication date: | 27th November 2003 |
| Author: | Mark A Wrathall |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 194 pages |
| Genres: |
Philosophy Christianity |
How should we understand religion, and what place should it hold, in an age in which metaphysics has come into disrepute? The metaphysical assumptions which supported traditional theologies are no longer widely accepted, but it is not clear how this 'end of metaphysics' should be understood, nor what implications it ought to have for our understanding of religion.
Religion After Metaphysics features in the following genres: Philosophy, Christianity
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Religion After Metaphysics was written by Mark A Wrathall and published by Cambridge University Press
Religion After Metaphysics has 194 pages