"2000 Years and Beyond" brings together some of the most eminent thinkers of our time-specialists in philosophy, theology, anthropology and cultural theory - to ask the strategic questions surrounding the millennium that others never thought to. These seven controversial and visonary new essays from Paul Ricoeur, Rene Girard, Jurgen Moltmann and Jean and John Comaroff, ask: How do we tell - and how do we rewrite - the story of the Common Era? Introduced by Paul Gifford, and discussed in a lively dialogic conclusion, they add their distinctive voices to a debate of profound and urgent topicality.…mehr
"2000 Years and Beyond" brings together some of the most eminent thinkers of our time-specialists in philosophy, theology, anthropology and cultural theory - to ask the strategic questions surrounding the millennium that others never thought to. These seven controversial and visonary new essays from Paul Ricoeur, Rene Girard, Jurgen Moltmann and Jean and John Comaroff, ask: How do we tell - and how do we rewrite - the story of the Common Era? Introduced by Paul Gifford, and discussed in a lively dialogic conclusion, they add their distinctive voices to a debate of profound and urgent topicality.
Paul Gifford is Buchanan Professor of French and Director of the Institute of European Cultural Identity Studies at the University of St Andrews. His publications inclide Reading Paul Valéry: Universe in Mind (Cambridge, 1999) and Subject Matters: Subject and Self in French Literature from Descartes to the Present (Rodopi, 1999). David Archard, Trevor A. Hart and Nigel Rapport all teach at the University of St Andrews.
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1. Volume introduction. 2000 Years: looking backwards and forwards Editors 2. Progress and Abyss: remembering the future in the modern world J. Moltmann University of Tübingen 3. Liberalism and value-pluralism: a post-Enlightenment view J. Gray LSE 4. History and the Representation of the Past P. Ricoeur Ecole des Hautes Etudes Paris 5. The Future of Human Nature R. Schacht University of Illinois 6. Sacrifice in archaic culture in Judaism and in Christianity René Girard Stanford California 7. 'Second Comings:Neo-Protestant Ethics and Millennial Capitalism in Africa and elsewhere' J and J Comaroff Chicago 8. Theology and the postmodern mind A.Thiselton University of Nottingham 9. Conclusion: Beyond 2000 Years _ _
1. Volume introduction. 2000 Years: looking backwards and forwards Editors 2. Progress and Abyss: remembering the future in the modern world J. Moltmann University of Tübingen 3. Liberalism and value-pluralism: a post-Enlightenment view J. Gray LSE 4. History and the Representation of the Past P. Ricoeur Ecole des Hautes Etudes Paris 5. The Future of Human Nature R. Schacht University of Illinois 6. Sacrifice in archaic culture in Judaism and in Christianity René Girard Stanford California 7. 'Second Comings:Neo-Protestant Ethics and Millennial Capitalism in Africa and elsewhere' J and J Comaroff Chicago 8. Theology and the postmodern mind A.Thiselton University of Nottingham 9. Conclusion: Beyond 2000 Years _ _
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