Paul Tyson

De-Fragmenting Modernity

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

We live in a strangely fragmented lifeworld. On the one hand, abstract constructions of our own imagination--such as money, "mere" facts, and mathematical models--are treated by us as important objective facts. On the other hand, our understanding of the concrete realities of meaning and value in which our daily lives are actually embedded--love, significance, purpose, wonder--are treated as arbitrary and optional subjective beliefs. This is because, to us, only quantitative and instrumentally useful things are considered to be accessible to the domain of knowledge. Our lifeworld is designed to dis-integrate knowledge from belief, facts from meanings, immanence from transcendence, quality from quantity, and "mere" reality from the mystery of being. This book explores two questions: why should we, and how can we, reintegrate being, knowing, and believing?

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cascade Books
• Seitenzahl: 128
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Juni 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 349g
• ISBN-13: 9781532614668
• ISBN-10: 1532614667
• Artikelnr.: 49113705

Autorenporträt

William Desmond is David Cook Chair in Philosophy at Villanova University, and professor of philosophy emeritus at the Institute of Philosophy, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. Paul Tyson writes about Christian Platonism, theological metaphysics, epistemology, the theology of science, theological sociology, the sociology of knowledge, and the theology and politics of money.