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Title Knowing other-wise : philosophy at the threshold of spirituality / edited by James H. Olthuis
Published New York : Fordham University Press, 1997

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 268 pages)
Series Perspectives in continental philosophy, 1089-3938 ; no. 4
Perspectives in continental philosophy ; no. 4. 1089-3938
Contents Love/knowledge : sojourning with others, meeting with differences / James H. Olthuis -- Conceptual understanding and knowing other-wise : reflections on rationality and spirituality in philosophy / Hendrik Hart -- Points of convergence between Dooyeweerdian and feminist views of the philosophic self / Janet Catherina Wesselius -- Taking the risk of essence : a Deweyan theory in some feminist conversations / Carroll Guen Hart -- Singular interruptions : Rortian liberalism and the ethics of deconstruction / Ronald A. Kuipers -- Face-to-face : ethical asymmetry or the symmetry of mutuality? / James H. Olthuis -- Structures of violence, structures of peace : Levinasian reflections on just war and pacifism / Jeffrey M. Dudiak -- Again ethics : a Levinasian reading of Caputo reading Levinas / Jeffrey M. Dudiak -- How to avoid not speaking : attestations / James K.A. Smith -- Crossing the threshold : sojourning together in the wild spaces of love / James H. Olthuis
Summary Annotation Recent discussions in the various circles of feminism, postmodernism, and environmentalism have begun to make clear that ontology and epistemology without ethics is deadly - oppressive to women, oppressive to men, oppressive to the earth. In response to this crisis of reason in modernity, this collection of essays suggests the importance of knowing other-wise, non-rational ways of knowing which are wise to the "other"--A spiritual knowing of the heart with the passionate eye of love. Knowing Otherwise calls into question the Western philosophical tradition of giving pride of place to reason in the acquisition of knowledge. Reasoning is only one of many ways in which we engage, i.e. know, the world. We know more than we think. We know by touch, by feel, by taste, by sight, by sounds, by smell, by symbols, by sex, by trust - by means of every modality of human experience. Philosophy becomes, in the fashion of Levinas, the wisdom of love at the service of love. Tracing connections between epistemology, ethics, and spirituality - between "knowing" and the "other," between an other and the Other - all the essays serve as points of convergence between postmodern discussions and the Calvinian spirituality which is the home for writers in this collection. In particular, this collection explores the contributions of feminist thought and thinkers such as Emmanuel Levinas, Richard Rorty, Jacqes Derrida, and John D. Caputo to a spiritually and ethically sensitive knowing
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Notes English
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Subject Postmodernism.
Feminist theory.
Ethics, Modern -- 20th century.
Philosophical theology.
Ethics, Modern.
PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern.
Ethics, Modern
Feminist theory
Philosophical theology
Postmodernism
Form Electronic book
Author Olthuis, James H
ISBN 0585171378
9780585171371
9780823217809
0823217809
9780823217816
0823217817
Other Titles Knowing otherwise