In Deference to the Other: Lonergan and Contemporary Continental ThoughtJim Kanaris, Mark J. Doorley In Deference to the Other brings contemporary continental thought into conversation with that of Bernard Lonergan (1904–1984), the Jesuit philosopher and theologian. This is an opportune moment to open such a dialogue: philosophers and theologians indebted to Lonergan have increasingly found themselves challenged by the insights of thinkers typically dubbed "postmodern," while postmodernists, most notably Jacques Derrida, have begun to ask the "God question." While Lonergan was not a continental philosopher, neither was he an analytic philosopher. Concerned with both epistemology and cognition, his systematic and hermeneutic-like proposals resonate with the concerns of philosophers such as Derrida, Foucault, Levinas, and Kristeva. Contributors to this volume find insight and affiliation between Lonergan's thought and contemporary continental thought in a wide-ranging work that engages the philosophical problems of authenticity, self-appropriation, ethics, and the human subject. |
Contents
Introduction JIM KANARIS AND MARK J DOORLEY | 1 |
1 Decentering Inwardness NICHOLAS PLANTS | 13 |
2 To Whom Do We Return in the Turn to the Subject? Lonergan Derrida and Foucault Revisited JIM KANARIS | 33 |
Lonergans Pearl of Great Price JAMES L MARSH | 53 |
Lonergan and Levinas on Being Human in Postmodernity MICHELE SARACINO | 65 |
The Psychic Structure of the Human Person and the Move to a Higher Viewpoint CHRISTINE E JAMIESON | 91 |
Neither Neoscholastic Substance nor Cartesian Ego FREDERICK LAWRENCE | 107 |
Postmodernity and Critical Realism MARK J DOORLEY | 121 |
8 Lonergan and the Ambiguity of Postmodern Laughter RONALD H MCKINNEY SJ | 141 |
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Contributors | 175 |
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