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Unforgettable and the Unhoped for
Contributor(s): Chretien, Jean-Louis (Author), Bloechl, Jeffrey (Translator)
ISBN: 0823221938     ISBN-13: 9780823221936
Publisher: Fordham University Press
OUR PRICE:   $34.20  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: August 2002
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Annotation: The Unforgettable and the Unhoped For is the first English translation of a work by Jean-Louis Chretien, one of France's leading phenomenologists. Chretien unfolds the ideas of memory and loss, of the immemorable, and of hope, in a manner that opens a phenomenological path to the heart of classical thought. This line of reflection places him in the company of Emmanuel Levinas, Jean-Luc Marion, and Michel Henry, in attempting to join philosophy and religion after Kant, Nietzsche, and Heidegger.

The extremities of time exceed our memory and expectation. For philosophy, beginning with Plato, the truth of being is immemorable and cannot be rediscovered except in passing through forgetfulness. How are we to understand this first forgetting? Modern analyses live from a denial of loss: everything would be unforgettable, and is always preserved in memory.

For Christian thought, to hope against all hope and to remember the origin are two essential acts of faith. Memory must die in order to be reborn, in order to purify itself of all nostalgia and become memory of the promise. Augustine and John of the Cross, after Philo the Jew, teach us what contemporary thought has begun to rediscover: only the Other is unforgettable, for it alone is unhoped for.
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BISAC Categories:
- Philosophy | Movements - Humanism
- Philosophy | Free Will & Determinism
Dewey: 128.3
LCCN: 2002000390
Series: Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
Physical Information: 0.4" H x 5.5" W x 8.4" (0.45 lbs) 135 pages
 
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In this first English translation of an important work, a leading phenomenologist unfolds the ideas of memory and loss, of the immemorable, and of hope, as he opens a phenomenological path to the heart of classical thought. He stands with Levinas, Marion, and Henry in attempting to join philosophy and religion after Kant, Nietzsche, and Heidegger.

Contributor Bio(s): Chretien, Jean-Louis: -

Jean-Louis Chretien teaches philosophy at the University of Paris IV. His books, as translated into English, include The Unforgettable and the Unhoped For (Fordham
University Press, 2002), Hand to Hand (Fordham University Press, 2003), and The Call and the Response (Fordham University Press, 2004). He is one of the coeditors of Phenomenology and the "Theological Turn" The French Debate (Fordham University Press, 2000), as well as the author of the follow-up volume Phenomenology "Wide Open" After the French Debate (Fordham University Press, 2005).

Bloechl, Jeffrey: - Jeffrey Bloechl is Professor of Philosophy at Catholic University of Leuven (Louvain) in Belgium.Bloechl, Jeffrey: - Jeffrey Bloechl is Professor of Philosophy at Catholic University of Leuven (Louvain) in Belgium.