Contemplation: Beyond and Behind |
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Authors: | Kevin Hart |
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Institution: | (1) The University of Virginia, Charlotteville, USA |
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Abstract: | This essay seeks to explore contemplation as it features in Christian theology and philosophy, both ancient and modern. Contemplation,
in ancient philosophy, is transformed in Christian theology; nonetheless, it has the structure of what Jean Wahl calls ‘transascendance’,
a rising to the heights. Although contemplation remains as a theme in modern Christian theology, it drops out in modern philosophy:
that is, post-Renaissance philosophy. And yet it returns, both in analytic and continental philosophy, in the twentieth century.
It returns, however, in the mode of ‘transdescendance’: by way of conditions of possibility, and fundamental orientations. |
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