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With the World at Heart: Studies in the Secular Today
Contributor(s): Carlson, Thomas A. (Author)
ISBN: 022661753X     ISBN-13: 9780226617534
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
OUR PRICE:   $31.68  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: May 2019
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BISAC Categories:
- Religion | Philosophy
- Religion | Mysticism
- Philosophy | Religious
Dewey: 205.677
LCCN: 2018037840
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6" W x 8.9" (0.75 lbs) 256 pages
Themes:
- Religious Orientation - Christian
 
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What is the role of love in opening and sustaining the temporal worlds we inhabit? One of the leading scholars in philosophy and the history of religious thought, Thomas A. Carlson here traces this question through Christian theology, twentieth-century phenomenological and deconstructive philosophy, and nineteenth-century individualism. Revising Augustine's insight that when we love a place, we dwell there in the heart, Carlson also pointedly resists lines of thought that seek to transcend loss and its grief by loving all things within the realm of the eternal. Through masterful readings of Heidegger, Derrida, Marion, Nancy, Emerson, and Nietzsche, Carlson shows that the fragility and sorrow of mortal existence in its transience do not, in fact, contradict love, but instead empower love to create a world.

Contributor Bio(s): Carlson, Thomas A.: - Thomas A. Carlson is professor of religious studies and founding director of the Humanities and Social Change Center at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of Indiscretion: Finitude and the Naming of God and The Indiscrete Image: Infinitude and Creation of the Human, both also published by the University of Chicago Press.