Full Description
This volume by leading philosophers and theologians explores the reception of continental philosophy in North America and its ongoing relation to Catholic institutions. What has prompted so many North American Catholics to support this particular school of thought? Why do so many Catholics continue to find continental philosophy attractive, and why do so many continental philosophers work in Catholic departments?
The establishment of the relationship between continental philosophy and Catholicism was not obvious, nor was it easy. Many of the contributors to this volume have played important roles in its development, and in these pages they take a stance on this evolving relationship and demonstrate that the engagement is far from over. Exploring the mutual interests that made this alliance possible as well as the underlying tensions, the volume provides, for the first time, an extended reflection on the historical, institutional, and intellectual relationship between Catholicism and continental philosophy on North American soil up to the present day.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Catholics and Continental Thought: A Curious Allegiance
Stephanie Rumpza
1. The Reception of Phenomenology and Existentialism by American Catholic Philosophers: Some Facts and Some Reasons
Daniel Dahlstrom
2. Between the Old World and the New: Neoscholasticism, Continental Philosophy, and the Historical Subject
Gregory P. Floyd
3. Continental Philosophy and Hermeneutics: Between Religion and Secularity
John D. Caputo
4. Meaning, Concreteness, and Subjectivity: American Phenomenology and Catholic Philosophy at Boston College
Patrick Byrne
5. Catholicism and Continental Philosophy in French Canada: An Opening Followed by an Ungrateful Separation
Jean Grondin
6. French Phenomenology and Catholic Thought: Unfolding the Logos of the Logos
Christina M. Gschwandtner
7. The Use of Philosophy in Critical Catholic Theology
Andrew Prevot
8. Continental Philosophy as a Source for Theology: The Case of the "Science-Religion" Debate
Anne M. Carpenter
9. How Continental Philosophy of Religion Came into Being and Where It Is Going
Bruce Ellis Benson
10. Catholic Thought, French Phenomenology, and the University: Historical-Critical Remarks
Jeffrey Bloechl
11. Being True to Mystery and Metaxological Metaphysics
William Desmond
12. Catholic Thought and the Appropriation of Apocalyptic Forms of Philosophy in Alain Badiou, Slavoj Zizek, and Agamben
Cyril O'Regan
