Encountering cruelty : the fracture of the human heart /
Drawing on Nietzsche's challenge to the western tradition, this book is a theological exploration of cruelty in its personal, communal and institutional encounters in human life. Cruelty undermines care, trust, respect and justice, and its study opens a window into the theological possibility o...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2011.
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Colección: | Studies in systematic theology (Leiden, Netherlands) ;
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Encountering Cruelty: The Fracture of the Human Heart; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Foreword ; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter One Encountering Cruelty: Trajectory of an Inquiry; A) Introduction
- An Intersection of Four Queries on a Topos; i) The Historical Query of Approximation
- The Topos of Cruelty; ii) The Classic Hermeneutic Query
- Nietzsche's Challenge; iii) The Query from Experience
- The Execution of David Jr. Ward; iv) The Query from a Locus of Belief
- The Execution of Jesus; v) Transition from Four Queries and a Beginning.
- B) The Lodestar
- To 'Know Oneself ' and Nietzsche's Way of Crueltyi) The Oracle at Delphi
- Construction, Fracture, Concealment; ii) Mythos and Myths
- Angst, Wonder and Awe; iii) Mythos and Myths
- Telos-Orientation and Teleology; iv) Trespass Concealed in Teleological Narrative-Myth; v) Scientific Socratism
- Skeptic and Tragic Philosopher after the 'Fact'; vi) 'The Rub'
- Abstraction, Limits of Language, Negative Creation, Reason's Mask; vii) Correlation: Positive Creation, Illusion/Allusion, Archeological Diving-Down; C) Cruelty: Etymology, Normativity, Tragic Existence.
- I) Etymology of Cruelty
- Excess and Encounterii) Normative Inroads to a Criterion; iii) Cruelty and a Sense of Tragic Existence; D) Correlative Cartography
- The Topography of Cruelty in Fracture-Artery-Contour; E) Remarks for Transition; Chapter Two Intra-Personal Cruelty: The Artery of Self-Objectification; A) Introduction
- Seeking a Point of Departure -Topography, Rising-In-Thought, Diving-Down; B) An Argument for a Distinct Anthropological Trajectory; i) Cruelty as Distinct from 'Sin' and 'Evil'; ii) The External Traditional Teleology of Redemption
- Cruelty, Sin and Evil.
- Iii) The Internal Modern Teleology of the Cosmic Selfiv) Remarks for Transition; C) Introduction
- An Anthropological Assessment: Oneself; i) Post-Modern Delphi
- Oneself between Existential Limit and Existentiell Horizon; ii) Self-Knowledge
- Oneself as An Other; iii) Self-Love
- An Other as Oneself; iv) An Intra-Personal Telos and Moniker; v) Remarks for Transition; D) The Narrative of Job
- The Cry Against Cruelty; i) Remarks for Transition; E) The Artery of Intra-Personal Objectification; i) Augustine
- Evil, Sin and Perversion; ii) Luther
- Evil, Sin, and Pretension.
- Iii) Assessment
- Objectificationiv) Remarks for Transition; F) Five Contours in the Artery of Self-Objectification; i) Struggle; ii) Trauma; iii) To Become an Enigma; iv) Excision; v) Ressentiment; G) The Supra-Narratives of Adam and Cain; i) Introduction
- What Happened to Adamand Cain?; ii) The Narrative of Cain
- Section I; iii) The Narrative of Adam; iv) The Narrative of Cain
- Section II; v) Ressentiment
- The Lineage of Cain and the Civilization of Nod; H) Remarks for Transition; Chapter Three Interpersonal Cruelty: The Artery of the Desire for Recognition.
- A) Introduction
- Charting an Interpersonal Topography in Western Thought.