Description |
1 online resource (xii, 262 pages) |
Contents |
Part I: Self-determining freedom -- The encounter between philosophy and theology -- From theology to philosophy -- The whole of reason -- Christian intimations of philosophy -- Anthropology beckons -- A theological reading of Hegel -- Hegel's logic revisited -- Anthropology's seeming negativity -- Absolute's freedom -- Self-disclosing gift -- Absolute freedom and spirit -- The logic of mercy -- Part II: The ontology of gift -- Retrieving the spirit -- Otherness and surprise as the beginning of metaphysics -- Positivistic reduction and promethean presumption -- The concept of the spirit and its manifestation -- Phenomenology of spirit -- An ontology of gift : finite spirit -- Giving before having -- Gratuitous reciprocity -- A perilous existence -- Altogether gift : absolute spirit -- The absolute principle -- Absolute gift : the infinite, the creator, and the eternal -- God's unfathomable love : the confirmation of the gift -- Love's ruse : the ultimate positivity of gift -- Three persons and the one personal God -- The kingdom of the Father -- Trinity and person -- Confirmation of finite spirit |
Summary |
"Spirit's Gift is the first book in English devoted to the philosophy of Claude Bruaire (1932-1986). Its focus is the notion of gift, a notion that has recently been the subject of lively debate involving Jacques Derrida, Jean-Luc Marion, Marcel Mauss, and others. What makes Bruaire's approach to this subject distinctive is that he treats it ontologically. This book critically examines the two main insights that govern Bruaire's ontology of gift (ontodology)." "While Bruaire's understanding of gift is decidedly philosophical, it is also of considerable theological interest, bearing as it does upon questions of Trinitarian theology, theological anthropology, and the Catholic sacrament of marriage. Rightly understood, his conception of gift sheds considerable light on the Thomistic understanding of Ipsum esse subsistens. It can also contribute to a philosophical retrieval of the category of causality and to the elucidation of the ontological ground of ethics."--BOOK JACKET |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-251) and index |
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English |
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Print version record |
Subject |
Bruaire, Claude, 1932-1986.
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SUBJECT |
Bruaire, Claude, 1932-1986 fast |
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Generosity.
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Gifts.
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Philosophical theology.
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Christianity -- Philosophy.
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Metaphysics.
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Giftware.
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First philosophy.
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metaphysics.
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gifts (object genre)
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PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern.
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Giftware
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First philosophy
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Christianity -- Philosophy
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Generosity
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Gifts
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Metaphysics
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Philosophical theology
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Metafysica.
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Form |
Electronic book
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LC no. |
2005016826 |
ISBN |
9780813216171 |
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0813216176 |
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