Book · July 9, 2024
This book offers a philosophical introduction to the theory and practice of contemplation. Kevin Hart examines a variety of religious, aesthetic, and philosophical notions, shedding light on the singular qualities of contemplation. ...
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Book · June 11, 2024
"Put this beautiful book on your shelf between Frank Conroy's Stop-Time and Tobias Wolff's This Boy's Life."—William Giraldi, author of The Hero's Body This powerful memoir from poet Kevin Hart traces his difficult childhood as a ...
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Journal ArticleModern Theology · January 1, 2024
In part four of D'ailleurs, la Révélation (2020) Jean-Luc Marion evokes the state of being seized by a saturated phenomenon, whether divinely revelatory or not, which guides one “across the desert on an anamorphic journey [parcours d'anamorphose].” The fig ...
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Journal ArticleJournal for Continental Philosophy of Religion · January 1, 2024
One little known mode of revelation these days is "mystical revelation,"to which there were many appeals in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, principally among Quietists and Semi-Quietists. This paper focuses on one such appeal, that made in L'Aban ...
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Book · 2024
The international spread of the biblical text will be reflected in a structure that considers the broader geographical, philosophical, and theological factors that crop up when the bible's role in culture and society is considered"-- ...
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Journal ArticleNew Literary History · June 2023
Abstract: Can one "know everything"? In the past, there were people who came close to doing so, but it seems impossible to have contemporaries who know everything. Certainly, some texts aspire to "say everything"; and the French expr ...
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Book · May 18, 2023
By fully discussing Blanchot's elusive concept of “the Outside” for the first time, this book progresses scholarly understandings of his entire oeuvre further. ...
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Journal ArticleStudies in Christian Ethics · February 2020
In his lectures on the death penalty Jacques Derrida argues the surprising thesis that ‘no philosophical system as such has ever been able rationally to oppose the death penalty’. And he also entertains a second thesis that juridical execution und ...
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Journal ArticleReligions · August 24, 2017
The hallowed scholarly area known as “Religion and Literature” has been seeking to expand itself, clarify itself, and even justify itself over the last decade or two.[...] ...
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Journal ArticleWord and Text: A Journal of Literary Studies and Linguistics · December 2015
The article analyses two sorts of disaster considered in Maurice Blanchot’s L’Écriture du désastre (1980): the Shoah and the approach of the Outside. Blanchot’s account of suffering is examined, as is the role that Blanchot’s reading of Robert Antelme’s L’ ...
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Book · February 1, 2015
... ebook on us from a selection of similar titles ! - or - Not loving this book ? No worries - choose another ebook on us from a selection of alternate titles ! CLAIM YOUR FREE EBOOK WILD New and Selected Poems TRACK KEVIN HART University of. ...
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Book · 2014
According to Hart, philosophers and theologians continually reinterpret Jesus's teaching of the Kingdom so that there are effectively many Kingdoms of God. ...
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Journal ArticleParagraph: A Journal of Modern Critical Theory · November 2007
Franz Rosenzweig's The Star of Redemption comes before the Shoah and Maurice Blanchot's The Writing of the Disaster comes after it. The one addresses itself with hope to the figure of a star; the other meditates on the state of being without a guiding star ...
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Book · April 1, 2004
All the major thinkers are introduced – from Derrida to Blanchot, Irigaray to Foucault, and more besides – while the book is unique among introductory guides in its consideration of the role of religion in a postmodern world. ...
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Book · 1999
... heat , Monaro noon ... Angels have nothing much to say , except ' Exceed the picayune ' , meaning Let warm summer light flow through the soul for hours on end ; The rest is rhythm , impromptu love : a long fantasia We play deep down ... ...
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