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Gianni Vattimo is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Turin.Jacques Derrida is Director of Studies at the École Pratique des Hautes études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, and holds a visiting appointment at the University of California.
<b>Jacques Derrida has been awarded the prestigious Theodor W. Adorno-Preis, 2001</b><br /> <p>'This is a challenging book, but one which rewards patient and critical reading.' <i>Theology</i></p>
The contributors to this volume, which appears in English for the first time, address a wide range of questions about the meaning, status and prospects of religion. What is the significance of religion and how does it touch upon our lives and our thinking? Where do the boundaries lie between the essential traits of religion and those of ethics and justice? Is there a truth to religion, and what part has religion played in the historical development of our sense of truth?
The contributors to this volume are Jacques Derrida, Maurizio Ferraris, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Aldo Gargani, Eugenio Trias, Gianni Vattimo and Vincenzo Vitiello.
This volume is a valuable contribution to contemporary thought on religion, and will be essential reading for students and scholars of philosophy, theology and the sociology of religion.
1. Faith and Knowledge: Jacques Derrida.
2. The Trace of the Trace: Gianni Vattimo.
3. Thinking Religion: The Symbol and the Sacred: Eugenio Trias.
4. Religious Experience as Event and Interpretation: Aldo Gargani.
5. Desert, Ethos, Abandonment: Towards a Topology of the Religious: Vincenzo Vitiello.
6. The Meaning of Being as a Determinate Ontic Trace: Maurizio Ferraris.
7. Dialogues in Capri: Hans-Georg Gadamer.
The contributors to this volume, which appears in English for the first time, address a wide range of questions about the meaning, status and prospects of religion. What is the significance of religion and how does it touch upon our lives and our thinking? Where do the boundaries lie between the essential traits of religion and those of ethics and justice? Is there a truth to religion, and what part has religion played in the historical development of our sense of truth?
The contributors to this volume are Jacques Derrida, Maurizio Ferraris, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Aldo Gargani, Eugenio Trias, Gianni Vattimo and Vincenzo Vitiello.
This volume is a valuable contribution to contemporary thought on religion, and will be essential reading for students and scholars of philosophy, theology and the sociology of religion.
Produktdetaljer
Om bidragsyterne
Gianni Vattimo is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Turin.Jacques Derrida is Director of Studies at the École Pratique des Hautes études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, and holds a visiting appointment at the University of California.