Marquette Studies in Philosophy
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Andrew Tallon, Series Editor

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66. Augustine of Hippo: Philosopher, Exegete, And Theologian: A Second Collection of Essays by Roland J. Teske, SJ. ISBN-13: 978-0-87462-764-0. 296 pp. Paper. $30. Bibliography. Index.

Marquette University Press is pleased to bring together in one volume these important studies on Augustine by Roland Teske. Here scholars will find fourteen articles and chapters gathered from many journals and books written over a span of years from 1980 to 2005. Some of the essays included:

Augustine as Philosopher
Ultimate Reality according to Augustine of Hippo
Augustine, Flew and the Free Will Defense
Platonic Reminiscence and Memory of the Present in St. Augustine
Augustine of Hippo on Seeing with the Eyes of the Mind
St. Augustine’s Epistula X: Another Look at ‘Deificari in otio’

Augustine as Exegete
St. Augustine, the Manichees, and the Bible
The Criteria for Figurative Interpretation in St. Augustine
St. Augustine and the Vision of God
St. Augustine on the Good Samaritan
St. Augustine’s Use of ‘Manens in Se’

Augustine as Theologian
St. Augustine on the Humanity of Christ and Temptation
Augustine, Maximinus, and Imagination
The Definition of Sacrifice in the De ciuitate Dei
The Image and Likeness of God in St. Augustine’s De Genesi ad litteram liber imperfectus

Roland J. Teske, SJ, Donald J. Schuenke Professor of Philosophy (PhD, University of Toronto, 1973), specializes in St. Augustine and medieval philosophers, especially William of Auvergne and Henry of Ghent. He has translated 10 volumes of works of St. Augustine, 4 volumes of works of William of Auvergne, and 3 volumes of works of Henry of Ghent. He has published over 50 articles on Augustine, over a dozen on William, and several on Henry. He has given the St. Augustine Lecture at Villanova and the Aquinas Lecture at Marquette University. He has been visiting professor at Santa Clara University, John Carroll University, and Villanova University.

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65. Being for the Other: Emmanuel Levinas, Ethical Living and Psychoanalysis by Paul Marcus. ISBN 13: 978-0-87462-763-3 ISBN 10: 0-87462-763-X. Paper. 265 pp. $30. Bibliography. Index.

“I am definitely not a Freudian,” declared Levinas in an interview. And yet, Marcus passionately argues, Levinas’s path-breaking ethical writings can profoundly enhance theoretical and clinical psychoanalysis. Like Freud, Levinas was focused on personal existence, on those issues of ultimate value and meaning that are central to what it means to be a human being at its best. Both thinkers were interested in helping to create the conditions of possibility for human beings to be kinder, gentler, stronger, and more reasonable in the face of the harshness, chaos, and moral challenges that we all face in our personal lives and on the world scene. This book aims to contribute to the development of a complementary paradigm to mainstream psychoanalysis, one that is based on the Levinasian assumption that the self is not fundamentally and firstly “for oneself;” as psychoanalysis usually puts forth, but, rather, responsibility for the Other-ethics, is “the essential, primary and fundamental structure of subjectivity.” The author illustrates his thesis-that the self is “hostage” to the other, that psychopathology is “ethical blunting” and treatment success is the enhanced capacity to love – with fascinating clinical vignettes and insights derived from his work as a psychoanalyst.

Dr. Paul Marcus is Supervising and Training Analyst, National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis. His previous books include Ancient Religious Wisdom, Spirituality, and Psychoanalysis: Autonomy in the Extreme Situation. Bruno Bettelheim, the Nazi Concentration Camps and the Mass Society; Warring Parents, Wounded Children, and the Wretched World of Child Custody. Cautionary Tales (with Joseph Helmreich).

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64. Work and Play. Collected papers on the Philosophy of Psychology (1938-1963) by Rudolf Allers. Edited & with an Introduction by Alexander Batthyany, Jorge Olaechea Catter, and Andrew Tallon. ISBN-13: 978-0-87462-762-6. 300 pp. $30. Paper. Index.

Among the chapters: Notes on Rudolf Allers and His Thought, Introduction, 1 Cause in Psychology, 2 Irresistible Impulses, 3 The Vis Cogitativa and Evaluation, 4 The Cognitive Aspect of Emotions, 5 The Limitations of Medical Psychology, 6 Intuition and Abstraction, 7 Philosophia–Philanthropia, 8 Ethics and Anthropology, 9 The Dialectics of Freedom, 10 Psychiatry and the Role of Personal Belief, 11 Reflections on Co-Operation and Communication, 12 Ontoanalysis: A New Trend in Psychiatry, 13 Work and Play, 14 The Freud Legend.

Rudolf Allers – neurologist, psychiatrist and philosopher, former prominent Freudian and former founding member of the Adlerian Society of Individual Psychology, friend of Edith Stein, mentor of Hans Urs von Balthasar and Viktor E. Frankl – wrote these 14 essays on the philosophy of psychology between 1938 and 1963. Two key ideas in his thinking are reflected in these essays: no one single discipline can claim to be able to understand human personhood, yet each discipline might add some knowledge about certain aspects of it; and secondly, the discourse between psychiatry, philosophy, and theology is not one across borders, but rather one between and about human beings. This anthology not only provides us with a history of a discipline – consciousness research – which is currently evolving; it also serves as a model for how the project of a nonreductionist yet scientifically informed philosophy of personhood could and should be like.

“Today Allers is more actual than ever. His findings and knowledge are not limited by time. He has given us a lot, but he has also taken a lot away from us: in many aspects Allers has anticipated the psychology of the future.” Viktor E. Frankl, Author of Man’s Search for Meaning

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63. The Foundations of Aristotle's Categorial Scheme by Paul Studtmann. ISBN-13: 978-0-87462-761-9 ISBN-10: 0-87462-761-3. Paper. 175 pp. $23. Bibliography. Index.

Aristotle's Categories had an unparalleled influence on the history of metaphysical speculation. Despite its influence, however, two fundamental questions remain to this day unanswered: (1) how did Aristotle generate his list of categories? and (2) what is the relationship between Aristotle's categories and his other great metaphysical system: hylomorphism? In this book, Paul Studtmann develops and defends an interpretation that offers a unified and striking answer to both questions: Aristotle's system of categories is systematically derivable from hylomorphism, which in turn is derivable from general theses about the nature of being.

Paul Studtmann teaches philosophy at Davidson College. He received his MA. from the University of Iowa and his PhD. from the University of Colorado at Boulder. His main areas of specialization are Ancient Philosophy, metaphysics, philosophical logic and the philosophy of mathematics.

 

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62. The Constitution of the Human Being by Max Scheler. From the posthumous works, volumes 11 and 12. Translated by John Cutting. ISBN 13: 978-087462-760-2 ISBN 10: 0-87462-760-5. Paper. 430 pp. $39. Bibliography. Index.

Max Scheler (1874-1928) was one of the major philosophers of the 20th Century. He was one of the three original phenomenologists - along with Husserl and Heidegger - who set the scene for phenomenological, existential and life philosophy, which dominated Continental European philosophy in that era. Of those three he is the least well known, partly because he died relatively young, partly because he was half-Jewish and foretold the National Socialist regime in Germany, and therefore his books were banned for fifteen years, and partly because his writings were ahead of his time. This translation, taken from his posthumous writings, carefully conserved by his widow, is of inestimable significance. It brings together most of what he wrote on metaphysics and human anthropology, the two topics which he was preoccupied with at the time of his death, and which he had promised would be full-length books. Anyone with any interest in the nature of the human being, and anyone with a sense that the current dispute between scientists and theologians is missing the point, should pounce on this book as providing a feast of inspiration. Chapter titles include: 1. The Essential Theory and Typology of Metaphysical Systems and Weltanschauungen, 2. My Theory of the Cognitive and Methodological Aspects of Metaphysics , 3. The Constitution of the Human Being, 4. The Metaphysics of the Human Being, 5. The Metaphysics of Cognition, 6. The Metasciences, 7. Theory of the Causes of Everything, 8. Supplementary Remarks.

John Cutting was born in Aberdeen, Scotland, and brought up in Yorkshire. He qualified as a doctor of medicine in London, then studied psychiatry and worked as a consultant psychiatrist at the Maudsley and Bethlem Hospitals and the Institute of Psychiatry in London for 20 years. For the last 15 years he has been studying philosophy with the aim of contributing to the growing discipline of philosophical psychopathology - explaining conditions such as schizophrenia and depression in philosophical terms.

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59. A Guide to Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Perception by George J. Marshall. ISBN 13: 978-0-87462-757-2 ISBN 10: 0-87462-757-5. Paper. 314 pp. $37. Bibliography. Index.

This guide is based upon the belief that the best source for discovering what Merleau-Ponty has to say is what he, himself says. But the European style of writing and the dialectical form of argument present majors obstacles for the first time reader of this book. This guide attempts to overcome these problems by providing the reader with the necessary background, explanations of how the chapters of the book fit together, maps of the structure of the arguments of each chapter, a glossary of technical philosophical and psychological terms, and a useful bibliography. These things do not replace nor are they an alternative to reading the Phenomenology of Perception. However, A Guide to Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Perception, is to provide the first time reader with the basic tools necessary for reading this important work.

George J. Marshall received his doctorate from Georgetown University and has taught at Campion College, University of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, for 40 years. He is now Professor Emeritus but continues to teach full time in Late Modern Philosophy, especially Hegel, and contemporary European Philosophy.

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58. Recent Catholic Philosophy The Nineteenth Century by Alan Vincelette. ISBN 13: 978-087462-756-5 ISBN 10: 0-87462-756-7. Paper. 415 pp. $42. Bibliography. Index.

Catholic thinkers contributed extensively to philosophy during the Nineteenth- Century. Besides pioneering the revivals of Augustinianism and Thomism, they also helped to initiate such philosophical movements as Romanticism, Traditionalism, Semi-Rationalism, Spiritualism, Ontologism, and Integralism. Unfortunately the exceptional diversity and profoundness of this epoch in Catholic thought has all too often been underappreciated. This book consequently traces the work of sixteen leading Catholic philosophers of the Nineteenth- Century so as to make evident their seminal offerings to philosophy, namely: Chateaubriand, Schlegel, Bautain, Bonald, Hermes, Gunther, Ravaisson-Mollien, Lequier, Rosmini-Serbati, Brownson, Kleutgen, Mercier, Gratry, Blondel, Newman, and Olle-Laprune.

Alan Vincelette is assistant professor of philosophy at St. John's Seminary, Archdiocese of Los Angeles. He has previously contributed articles to Grayling, A.C., ed., Encyclopedia of British Philosophy (Bristol: Thoemmes Continuum, 2006); Oord, Thomas Jay, ed., The Many Facets of Love (Angerton Gardens: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007); Kornberg Greenberg, Yudit, ed., Encyclopedia of Love in World Religions (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2008); and has translated the works of Pierre Rousselot for Marquette University Press.

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57. Panagiotis Thanassas. Parmenides, Cosmos, and Being: A Philosophical Interpretation. ISBN-13: 978-087462-755-8 & ISBN-10: 0-87462-755-9. ©2008. 109 pages. Paperbound. Bibliography. Index. $15.

In the philosophical poem he composed around 500 BC, Parmenides presents an anonymous goddess who – like a philosophical Gorgon – denies movement and plurality and propagates an ontology that completely petrifies the world of phenomena. This is the communis opinio, against which the current interpretation is addressed. Parmenidean Truth does not deny the polymorphy of the Cosmos, but rather endeavors to noetically understand its unity as a result of participation in Being. The second and longer part of the poem, the so-called Doxa, then presents a cosmogonic and cosmological “world-arrangement” of divine origin, founded on the combination of the two forms of Light and Night.

Panagiotis Thanassas was born in 1967 in Patras, Greece. He studied philosophy at the University of Tübingen, Germany, where he received his PhD in 1996. He has taught Philosophy at Tübingen, Heidelberg and Cyprus, and is currently Assistant Professor at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He is author of several books and articles on Greek Philosophy, Hegel, Heidegger, and Hermeneutics.

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56. John Cowburn, SJ. Free Will, Predestination and Determinism. ISBN-13: 978-0-87462-754-1 & ISBN-10: 0-87462-754-0. Paper. 268 pages. $30.

John Cowburn presents the theory underlying the doctrine of free will from both philosophical and theological perspectives. Part One covers the psychological and philosophical conditions for free will, dealing also with compatibilism and chance. Part Two covers the historical background of predestination and other theological problems from the Biblical and Patristic periods through the Scholastics and Reformation and continues into the twentieth century. Part Three offers a detailed defense of free will against determinism. Part Four covers practical questions on making decisions, the influence of emotion, and moral theological concerns.

John Cowburn, SJ, is professor of philosophy and member of the United Faculty of Theology, one of four Associated Teaching Institutions of the Melbourne College of Divinity in Victoria, Australia. He is the author of Love, and Personalism & Scholasticism, published by Marquette University Press.

 

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55. Philosophical Leisure: Recuperative Praxis for Human Communication by Annette Holba. ISBN-13: 978-087462-753-4& ISBN-10: 0-87462-753-2. ©2007. 200 pages. Paperbound. Bibliography. Index. $20

Human beings have suffered a communication eclipse as a result of rapid technological advancements and conspicuous consumption. Consequences of this communication eclipse can be devastating to the human condition. Philosophical Leisure: Recuperative Praxis for Human Communication invites us to understand the ontological and phenomenological difference between leisure and recreation. This distinction is important since outcomes of each activity differ dramatically. Philosophical leisure can repair our ability to communicate with others at a deeply human level. So, be prepared to revision your understanding of leisure and experience a transformation of your soul.

Dr. Annette Holba (MA, Rutgers; PhD, Duquesne) is Assistant Professor of Communication Studies in the Department of Communication & Media Studies at Plymouth State University in Plymouth, New Hampshire. She is author of Handbook for the Humanities Doctoral Student, 2005.

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54. A Path to Peace. Fresh Hope for the World. Dramatic Explorations By Gabriel Marcel. Five Plays. Translated & Introduced by Katharine Rose Hanley. ISBN-13: 978-0-87462-752-7 & ISBN-10: 0-87462-752-4. Paper. 272 pages. $30

The plays in this volume reveal Marcel’s concrete dramatic approach to questions regarding interpersonal relations, love, family, commitment, and creative fidelity, as these are requisite attitudes and steps along the path to peace in personal, interpersonal, international and multicultural situations. These plays artfully invite readers’ personal reflections in order to clarify their stances on these and similar issues.

Included here:

The Heart of Others

Dot the I

The Double Expertise

The Lantern

Colombyre or the Torch of Peace

Plus interviews with the translator concerning each play

As well as a listing of texts & audio visuals materials for use in a classroom setting. Marcel’s contributions have been recognized internationally with prestigious awards including: France’s National Prize for Literature, the Pirkheimer Prize for Humanism, and the Goethe Peace Prize for promoting peace beyond national frontiers.

K.R. Hanley, Ph.D., is Professor Emerita of Philosophy at Le Moyne College and past President of the Gabriel Marcel Society. Professor Hanley has written and lectured extensively on Gabriel Marcel

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53. G-d, Rationality and Mysticism by Irving Block. ISBN-13: 978-0-87462-751-0 & ISBN-10: 0-87462-751-6. Paper. 214 pages. $25

There are two beliefs that are fairly well entrenched in Western thought. The first is that belief in G-d is purely a matter of faith and cannot be supported by rational arguments. The second is that rationality is incompatible with mysticism.

This book aims to loosen the grip of these two beliefs by showing them to be common misconceptions. The first part of this book argues that it is more rational to believe in G-d than not. The second part argues that instead of rationality being incompatible with mysticism, it ultimately leads to it. In the second part the author draws in particular on the literature of Chabad Hasidic philosophy and the teachings of the Lubavitcher Rebbe. Special attention is devoted to near-death experiences.

About the Author

Born in Nashville, Tennessee, Yitzchok (Irving) Block holds a PhD in Philosophy from Harvard University. Professor Block is professor emeritus at The University of Western Ontario in London, Canada where he taught in the department of philosophy for 36 years. Block's professional areas of interest are Aristotle and Wittgenstein. Professor Block has published numerous papers and edited a book, Perspectives on the Philosophy of Wittgenstein. His article "G-d and Rationality" appeared in B'Or Ha' Torah 2; and "G-d and Rationality Revisited," in B'Or Ha' Torah 6E. A revision of "G-d and Rationality" appears in Science in the Light of the Torah published by Jason Aronson.

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52. Suárez. Between Scholasticism & Modernity by José Pereira. ISBN-13: 978-087462-750-3 & ISBN-10: 0-87462-750-8. ©2007. 384 pages. Paperbound. Bibliography. Index. $37

Francisco Suárez (1548-1617) is one of the great anomalies in the history of thought: of one thinker functioning in two contrary roles, each reversing the other. The role of being, on the one hand, the consummator of one phase of philosophical speculation, the realist and Scholastic; and on the other, the initiator (though an unwitting one) of another phase, the idealist, modern and nihilist. This shift from realism to idealism was crucial in Western philosophy; it inaugurated an era of irrepressible, if chaotic, creativity.

On the one side, cosmos, the climax of a tradition of over a millennium, embodied in the most massive work of systematics in the history of speculation, the 21-million worded Suarezian synthesis; on the other, chaos, the rise of a plethora of systems, anti-systems and non-systems in a mad sequence of innovations and novelties, each appearing to cancel out the others, all seemingly hurtling toward the black holes of skepticism, anti-realism, relativism and nihilism itself. The anomaly is all the more striking because this conflagration was presumably kindled by the tremendous claim, but made by a small word, that objective truth can be known by ascertaining a subjective state of mind. The small word was notior, “better known”; its claim was that the intra-mental consciousness is “better known” to us than the extra-mental reality itself, and can serve to establish the latter’s truth.

José Pereira earned his doctorate at the University of Bombay 1n 1959 in Ancient Indian culture. Since then he held academic positions in Lisbon, London, Benares and New York: at Fordham University, where he was Professor of Theology, teaching History of Religions from 1970 to 2001. His publications deal with theology, philosophy and architectural history, and include Hindu Theology, (Doubleday, 1976), Baroque India. The Neo-Roman Architecture of South Asia (New Delhi, 2000), and The Sacred Architecture of Islam (New Delhi, 2004). His one love has always been the Baroque period, which inspired The Mystical Theology of the Catholic Reformation. An Overview of Baroque Spirituality (AUP, 2006, co-authored with Robert Fastiggi), as also the present book on the prime Baroque Scholastic, Suárez. Between Scholasticism and Modernity.

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51. Studies in the Philosophy of William of Auvergne, Bishop of Paris (1228-1249) by Roland J. Teske, SJ. ISBN-13: 978-087462-674-2 & ISBN-10: 0-87462-674-9. ©2006. 274 pages. Paperbound. Bibliography. Index. $30

William of Auvergne, bishop of Paris from 1228 to his death in 1249, was one of the first masters of theology in the Latin West to confront the flood of Greek and Islamic philosophy that poured into Europe through the new translations made in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. William was deeply influenced by Avicenna, whom he took to be a true representative of Aristotle. Although he adopted many points of Avicennian philosophy, he firmly opposed him wherever the great Islamic thinker was opposed to the Christian faith. Fr. Teske translated William’s De trinitate with Francis C. Wade, SJ. He has also translated the De immortalitate animae, the De anima, and selections from the De universo creaturarum. The present volume contains a selection of his articles on William’s philosophy published over the past fifteen or so years.

Roland J. Teske, SJ, Donald J. Schuenke Professor of Philosophy (PhD, University of Toronto, 1973), specializes in St. Augustine and medieval philosophers, especially William of Auvergne and Henry of Ghent. He has translated 10 volumes of works of St. Augustine, 4 volumes of works of William of Auvergne, and 3 volumes of works of Henry of Ghent. He has published over 50 articles on Augustine, over a dozen on William, and several on Henry. He has given the St. Augustine Lecture at Villanova and the Aquinas Lecture at Marquette University. He has been visiting professor at Santa Clara University, John Carroll University, and Villanova University.

 

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50. Metaphysics without Truth: On the Importance of Consistency within Nietzsche’s Philosophy by Stefan Lorenz Sorgner. ISBN 978-0-87462-673-5. ©2007. 173 pages. Paperbound. Bibliography. Index. $20

Is there any good reason to believe in Nietzsche’s metaphysics even though he himself claims that it is not “the truth” in correspondence with the world? According to Danto, Nietzsche’s metaphysics is only valid for Nietzsche himself. However, this answer does not take into consideration Nietzsche’s claim for the general superiority of his philosophy. Nietzsche’s view seems inconsistent: on the one hand, he claimed all perspectives are equally false in respect to “the truth,” but on the other, he regarded his views as superior. This book explains in which respect Nietzsche justifies his claims, that Nietzsche’s position is not inconsistent, and why consistency is important for him.

“Sorgner’s erudite but refreshing book is a launching pad for ongoing Nietzsche studies.”~H. James Birx (Canisius College & State University of New York, Geneseo) in Philosophy Now

“In clear and robust prose, Stefan Sorgner has written a bold and ambitious book on Nietzsche’s metaphysics and philosophy of truth. It offers a genuinely original attempt to resolve the apparent contradiction between Nietzsche’s advocacy of a particular metaphysical doctrine, that of ‘will to power’, and his ‘perspectivalist’ account of truth. Sorgner’s contentious but well-argued interpretation deserves to stimulate considerable critical discussion among students of Nietzsche.” ~ David E. Cooper, University of Durham/UK

“The central thesis of this extremely well-argued book … is that Nietzsche developed in his unpublished writings … a concept of the will to power that constitutes a metaphysical ‘system’ … Sorgner … brilliantly attempts to resolve the old dilemma of philosophers, why they should take Nietzsche’s aphorisms seriously, if he disavows their claim to truth.” ~ Anette Horn, University of the Witwatersrand/Africa in Acta Germanica

“An innovative and scholarly exploration of nihilism and the spirit (of our time) in Nietzsche.” ~ Chris Long, University of Durham/UK

“The author’s exposition of Nietzsche’s metaphysics is incisive, original and thought-provoking. ... fresh and sharply focused.”~Paul MacDonald, Murdoch University/Australia “This work provides an original response to the classic question concerning the authority that Nietzsche can legitimately claim for his philosophical voice [...] Sorgner boldly attempts to show that Nietzsche is not caught in a paradox.” ~ David Owen, University of Southampton/UK

“Sorgner’s [book] is clearly written and contains several strong arguments.” ~ Hans Otto Seitschek, University of Munich/Germany in Philosophical Writings

Stefan Lorenz Sorgner teaches applied ethics and philosophy at the Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena. He is the co-editor of the following collections: (Sorgner/Fürbeth) Musik in der deutschen Philosophie: Eine Einführung (Metzler, 2003); (Knoepffler/Schipanski/Sorgner) Humanbiotechnologie als gesellschaftliche Herausforderung (Alber, 2005); (Sorgner/ Birx/Knoepffler) Eugenik und die Zukunft (Alber, 2006); (Knoepffler/Schipanski/Sorgner) Human-Biotechnology as Social Challenge (Ashgate, forthcoming); (Sorgner/Fürbeth) Music in German Philosophy: An Introduction (University of Chicago Press, forthcoming).

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49. Issues in Interpretation Theory edited by Pol Vandevelde. ISBN-13: 978-087462-672-8 & ISBN-10: 0-87462-672-2. ©2006. 299 pages. Paperbound. Bibliography. Index. $30

This volume contains a selection of the contributions made by the scholars who participated in the Seminar on Phenomenology and Hermeneutics organized at Marquette University since 2002. These essays illustrate the noncausal model of investigation chosen by phenomenology and hermeneutics and enlivened by the Husserlian hope to bring the still mute experience to expression. In the multifaceted treatments this book offers of many different topics we come to a better grasp of the extent to which understanding is both a faculty and a mode of existence, bringing together epistemology, history, and ontology. For what is described by phenomenology—the susceptibility to make sense both of things and human beings—is also in part what makes human beings who they are—their capacity to understand themselves and things around them.

Pol Vandevelde

 

 

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48. The Malebranche Moment: Selections from the Letters of Étienne Gilson & Henri Gouhier (1920-1936). Translated & edited by Richard J. Fafara. ISBN-13: 978-087462-671-1 & ISBN-10: 0-87462-671-4. Paper. 220 pages. $25.

In 1921, Étienne Gilson, one of the greatest Christian philosophers since Thomas Aquinas, began teaching at the Sorbonne. A twenty-three-year-old student, Henri Gouhier, promptly asked Gilson to direct his doctoral work on the great seventeenth-century philosopher Nicolas Malebranche. Gilson agreed. Thus began a relationship that ripened into a very deep personal and professional friendship lasting more than half a century. Gilson engaged in extensive correspondence throughout his long life, but little of it has seen the light of day. The letters in this volume, mostly from Gilson, reveal his extraordinary knowledge and intelligence, high standard of scholarship, sense of humor, remarkably distinctive style, and serious Catholicism. The letters also reveal aspects of Gilson the man behind the scholar hitherto privy only to students and close friends.

“As Delbos said to me about 1910 or 1912, when I was discussing philosophy with him: ‘Above all, Gilson, love your wife and your children.’ Let me add to that two or three friends, of which you are one, and there is no one ahead of you.” —From Gilson’s 31 August 1934 letter to Gouhier

Dr. Richard J. Fafara is Senior Research Analyst for the U.S. Army Family and Morale, Welfare and Recreation Command and teaches philosophy at Northern Virginia Community College in Alexandria.

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47. Jos V.M. Welie. Justice in Oral Health Care: Ethical and Educational Perspectives. ISBN-13: 978-0-87462-670-4 and ISBN-10: 0-87462-670-6. ©2006 Paperbound. Bibliography. Index. 370 pp. $35

Oral health is an intrinsic part of overall health. The mouth is part of the digestive and respiratory systems; it is essential to spoken communication and facial expression; in fact, toothaches are among the most severe and hence debilitating kinds of pain that a person can suffer. The economic cost of dental disease is staggering, equaling an annual loss of some 20 million days of work in the US alone. But far more disastrous is the personal cost for those suffering from these conditions. More than 100 million US citizens lack dental insurance. There is widespread consensus that the resulting disparities are most unfortunate. But are they also unfair? The dental profession and society at large appear much less eager to confirm the unfairness of this situation. After all, with unfairness comes the ethical obligation to attempt rectification of the situation. It is one thing to praise charitable voluntarism; it is quite another to insist on distributive justice. This book makes the case for justice in oral health. Renowned dental ethicists discuss vari-ous theoretical perspectives; national and international policy experts propose practical changes; and experienced dental educators outline innovative teaching modes. This book is not just food for thought; it is an invitation to critical discussion and creative planning.

Dr. Jos Welie is a Professor at the Center for Health Policy and Ethics at Creighton University Medical Center in Omaha, USA, where he teaches both medical and dental ethics. He is the Founding Secretary of the International Dental Ethics and Law Society and has written extensively on professionalism and ethics in dentistry. His previous book for Marquette University Press was Jesuit Health Sciences & the Promotion of Justice: An Invitation to a Discussion, with Judith Lee Kissell (ISBN 0-87462-694-3.

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46. Thomas C. Anderson. A Commentary on Gabriel Marcel’s The Mystery of Being. ISBN-13: 978-087462-669-8 & ISBN-10: 0-87462-669-2. ©2006. 202 pages. Paperbound. Bibliography. Index. $25

Over the past decade there has been renewed interest in the thought of the Christian existentialist Gabriel Marcel. An English translation of his autobiographical final work Awakenings as well as a collection of his essays on music have recently been published by Marquette University Press. Major philosophical works of his have been reprinted, the foremost among them being the two volume The Mystery of Being, a work in which Marcel discusses almost all of the major components of his thought and which he said contained an “approximate synthesis” of his ideas. Marcel was among the first to enunciate the distinction between intersubjective (I-thou) relations and subject to object (I-him/her) relations; the important difference between having and being and between problems and mysteries; the phenomena of the lived body and sensation; the concretely situated and dependent character of human existence as well as its supratemporal, transcendent dimension; the centrality of faith, hope, and love in human life, and our obscure and frequently unrecognized but, nevertheless, real experiences of an Absolute Thou and of our dead loved ones. However, Marcel’s philosophical writings, including The Mystery of Being, although innovative and insightful, are often not easily understood by even his most sympathetic readers—frequently because his discussions of issues are unsystematic and sketchy and his reasons in support of the conclusions he arrives at are so briefly presented. This commentary offers a fuller explanation than Marcel himself does of many of the ideas and arguments he sets forth in The Mystery of Being. This is because it includes in its analysis of each chapter, his discussions of the same topics in other works he published. This chapter by chapter commentary is meant to be used along with Marcel’s own words in The Mystery of Being. It is written for those who, though attracted to his work, find it difficult to grasp. That is, the intended audience is not just scholars who have studied Marcel in depth but educated people who are interested in entering into the philosophical reflections of one of the major Catholic thinkers of the twentieth century.

Thomas Anderson is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He is the author of two books and editor of one on Jean-Paul Sartre in addition to numerous articles on Sartre, Søren Kierkegaard, and Gabriel Marcel. He was the founder and first president of the Gabriel Marcel Society in North America.

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45. RJ Snell. Through a Glass Darkly: Bernard Lonergan & Richard Rorty on Knowing without a God’s-Eye View. ISBN-13: 978-087462-668-1 & ISBN-10: 0-87462-668-4. ©2006. 238 pages. Paperbound. Bibliography. Index. $27

The modern hope of attaining purely rational and objective knowledge has faltered, to the joy of some and worry of others. Philosophy’s attempt to see reality with a god’s-eye view is increasingly viewed as unlikely or undesirable, but what fills the vacuum now that the modern project is in jeopardy? Through a Glass Darkly examines the thought of Richard Rorty and Bernard Lonergan on the possibility of knowledge without a god’s-eye view. Rorty, one of the most influential contemporary thinkers, exposes the utter contingency of all philosophical solutions and intuitions. Without the pretensions of objective knowledge, Rorty hopes for a liberal order rooted in hope and solidarity rather than fruitless longings for truth. Constantly asking us to pay attention to what we actually do when we attempt to know, Lonergan discovers in the fragility of consciousness a modest but invariant foundation for human knowledge. Unlike naive forms of realism, Lonergan’s answer to Rorty’s skepticism reveals Rorty’s incomplete escape from Cartesian Anxiety. Lonergan’s turn to the subject more radically breaks the lure of certainty and reveals Lonergan, not Rorty, as the integral postmodern thinker.

R. J. Snell (Ph.D., Marquette University) is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at North Park University.

 

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1. Harry Klocker, SJ. William of Ockham and the Divine Freedom. ISBN 0-87462-001-5. ©1996. 141 pages. Paperbound. Index. $15

First edition sold out. Second edition, reviewed, corrected and with a new Introduction.

“Who is the real father of modern philosophy? Who put an end to the main thrust of mediæval philosophy? The answer suggested by this book is: the fourteenth-century British Franciscan, William of Ockham. His writings in theology and philosophy have but recently been partly published in critical editions issued by St. Bonaventure University Press, N.Y. Long before the French claimed that René Descartes started the 'modern way' of philosophizing, or the British gave the same doubtful honor to Francis Bacon, this William from Surrey clearly introduced the sort of radical empiricism that has characterized post-medieval thought in the West. Harry Klocker has been studying and writing on Ockham’s thought since the mid-1950s. His research articles were published in journals (The Illif Review, The Modern Schoolman, Franciscan Studies, The Thomist) not much read by historians of modern philosophy. Spread over the years 1958 to 1983, these studies are revised and gathered in the present useful book. There are a few other good books on Ockham, by scholars like Marilyn M. Adams, Gordon Leff and Ernest Moody, but Klocker’s work is a welcome addition to the literature.” — Vernon J. Bourke, Saint Louis University. From the review in The Modern Schoolman.

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2. Margaret Monahan Hogan. Finality and Marriage. ISBN 0-87462-600-5. 121 pages, paperbound, $15.

NOTE: See #34, below for the second revised and updated edition.

“Finality and Marriage is a book about the nature of marriage, its ends and its act. Philosopher Margaret Monahan Hogan is convinced that only when we accurately grasp the vetera (the essential elements of the tradition) will we be prepared to move to the nova. This move is a continuity. For this reason Hogan examines the notion of marriage and its ends in the documents of recent tradition beginning with Casti connubii. Hogan is no iconoclast. Her treatment is full, fair and respectful. She notes that in the last sixty years there has been a gradual but perceptible development in official documents. What was suspect in the thirtiesis contemporary orthodoxy. Concretely, Hogan traces the conceptual move of Church documents from marriage as a procreative institution to marriage as an intimate personal union. It is within this notion of marriage that we must weigh the distinct ends of marriage (the union itself, children, and the individual goods of the partners), hierarchize them and articulate the claims they make upon us. Hogan finds the demand of inseparability for the unitive and procreative aspects of every act of sexual intercourse to be without foundation. She takes the consequences of this when she finds contraception (and even sterilization) and artificial insemination morally appropriate given sufficient reason.” — From the Foreword by Richard A. McCormick, SJ.

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3. Gerald A. McCool, SJ. The Neo-Thomists. ISBN 0-87462-601-1. ©1994. 3rd printing, revised & corrected, 2003. Paperbound, 175 pages. $20

“Neo-Thomists are writers who stand within a tradition of thinking traceable (for various reasons) to that of Aquinas. Historians of ideas will disagree about the extent to which individual NeoThomists accurately interpret him. And philosophers and theologians will differ in their judgements as to the worth of what they say. But nobody can deny that they have been a force to be reckoned with in Christian theological discussion, especially in Roman Catholic circles.

In what follows readers will find a clear and concise survey of their thinking written by an acknowledged expert on it. There have been many books and articles written on particular NeoThomists. At the date of publication, however, Professor McCool’s study is the only available English introduction to the full-range of Neo-Thomist writings. It should therefore prove of considerable value to students of nineteenth and twentieth century theology and philosophy.” — Brian Davies, O.P., from the Foreword.

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4. Max Scheler. Ressentiment. ISBN 0-87462-602-1.©1998. 4th printing, corrected, 2003. Paperbound. Index. New Introduction by Manfred Frings. 172 pages. $20

“Max Scheler (1874-1928), by testimony of almost all contemporary European philosophers, was one of the most brilliant thinkers in our century. As Heidegger once put it, there is no presentday philosopher who is not indebted to him. Others agreed with the Spanish philosopher Ortega y Gasset who wrote that with the sudden death of Scheler, Europe had lost one of its greatest minds it ever had. Whereas his name was in circulation everywhere during the twenties, including in Asia and the Americas, his fame faded away like a comet after his demise at the age of fifty-four. He left behind many printed works and thousands of posthumous manuscripts, all of which material was suppressed by the German Nazi-regime during 1933 and 1945. Publication of his works took only a slow start in 1954. So did translations of them. Among Max Scheler’s most intriguing early works dealing with the non-rational, emotional depths of human beings is his 1914 investigation into resentment, which increasingly marks the modern era. It was published first in 1912 under the German title, Über Ressentiment und moralisches Werturteil (Ressentiment and Moral Value-Judgment). In 1915 it went into an enlarged edition with the new title, Das Ressentiment im Aufbau der Moralen (The Role of Ressentiment in the Make-Up of Morals). The present Louis A. Coser translation into English is made from the 1915 text.” — From the New Introduction by Manfred Frings.

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5. Augustine Shutte. Philosophy for Africa. ISBN 0-87462-608-0. ©1995. Paperbound. 184 pages. $20

Has philosophy anything of value to offer contemporary Africa? Has Africa anything of value to offer contemporary philosophy? Philosophy for Africa answers yes to both these questions.It deals with the question of human freedom, and the problem of liberation (in its most comprehensive sense), in the context of contemporary Africa (especially South Africa) and its struggle to overcome the predicament in which European colonialism (and apartheid) has left it. Traditional African thought contains insights into the nature of persons and community that scientific and technological culture has lost, but which could be of the utmost importance in dealing with these issues. They embody a conception of humanity that avoids the materialism and individualism of the dominant forms of contemporary philosophy, but without embracing the opposite extremes of dualism or Marxist collectivism. At the same time, contemporary Africa, and South Africa in particular, needs to articulate these insights in a critical and systematic way, so as to be able to apply them in the struggle for a comprehensive human liberation.

Philosophy for Africa draws from the philosophical tradition associated with the names of Aristotle and Aquinas, and such recent figures as Karl Rahner and Bernard Lonergan. It develops this tradition creatively, to integrate African insights and European philosophy into a philosophy of persons, which could serve as a criterion for liberation in the different spheres of human life. In particular, the philosophy of persons is applied to the question of liberation in the spheres of work and gender. It is also used to throw light on the important role of religion in a liberation struggle.
Augustine Shutte is a member of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Cape Town, where he teaches courses m moral philosophy, history of philosophy, philosophy of religion and philosophy in a South African context.He has published articles in a variety of journals, including the International Philosophical Quarterly, Philosophy, Philosophy and Theology, Modern Theology, The Scottish Journal of Theology, New Blackfriars, Philosophical Papers, The South African Journal of Philosophy. He is also the author of a theological book, The Mystery of Humanity.

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6. Howard P. Kainz. Democracy and the “Kingdom of God.” ISBN 0-87462-610-2. ©1995. Paperbound. Index. $25

“There is a consensus among Christian theologians that the symbol of the “kingdom of God,” inherited from the Judaic tradition, is the key to understanding Christianity. But theologians have for millennia differed among themselves as to the interpretation of this symbol. Political ramifications of, or reactions to, this Judaeo-Christian idea have included the Holy Roman Empire, the Crusades, the “Third Rome,” American Manifest Destiny, Zionism, the Third Reich, and Liberation Theology. This book focuses on the question of whether the “kingdom of God” is necessarily related to certain political implementations, and its possible implications for democracy and democratic theory. It examines the development of the symbol in the Old and New Testaments, the diversity of related theological interpretations and political concomitants, and the significance of the “kingdom of God” in the development of present and future political formations and political theory.” — From the author’s Preface

“Kainz’s contribution consists more in the method of argumentation which he uses to support it: a method which combines dialectical argumentation, expressed in chapters in the form of dialogues together with an historical survey. The result is precisely a dialectical presentation, both of the Kingdom of God and of democracy, and of their relationship. The advantage of this method of argumentation is that it allows one to refine the thesis itself, exposed to the criticism of the adversary, so that the final proposition takes into account the contrasting viewpoints and is aware of its own fragility, being liable to degenerate into onesideness.” — From the review in Salesianum 57 (1995) 381-82.5.

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7. Knud Løgstrup. Metaphysics. ISBN 0-87462-603-X. ©1995. Volume I. 400 pages. Paperbound. Formerly $40; now $20.00 ISBN 0-67462-607-2. Volume II. 400 pages. Paperbound. Formerly $40; now $20.00

Translated by Dr. Russell Dees. Commissioned by Aarhus University, Denmark. A two volume translation of the major work of the most important Danish philosopher since Kierkegaard.

“At the time of his death in 1981, K. E. Løgstrup was in the process of completing his fourvolume treatise entitled Metafysik. As his recent biographer Hans Hauge put it, this work was Løgstrup’s summa theologica, the culmination of a lifetime of reading and thinking. Løgstrup published two volumes of this work during his lifetime. The remaining two volumes were edited and published posthumously in 1983 and 1984, respectively, by his widow and several colleagues: Rosemarie Løgstrup, Svend Andersen, Karstein Hansen, Ole Jensen and Viggo Mortensen. The group has edited and published two additional volumes of K. E. Løgstrup’s papers. This translation was commissioned by the University of Aarhus, where Løgstrup was professor of theology from 1943 to 1975, and consists of excerpts from all but one of these works. Danes consider Knud Ejler Løgstrup to be the greatest philosophical/theological thinker their nation has produced since Søren Kierkegaard strolled the cobbled streets of Copenhagen. Like Kierkegaard, Løgstrup has the reputation of being a difficult and strong-willed thinker. On the occasion of the thirteenth printing of Løgstrup’s most widely known work, The Ethical Demand (1956), Poul Erik Tøjner described him in the following way:

K. E. Løgstrup was an obstinate, headstrong thinker. He thought his own way, one could say. He said much. Often, he said the exact opposite of what the epoch accepted as stock, selfevident truths. If Kierkegaard and hundreds of theologians after him said that Christ lived the most paradoxical life that had ever been lived, Løgstrup said that he had lived the only nonparadoxical life on earth. Løgstrup’s influence on Danish spiritual life has been colossal. That his ideas have become so widespread is a tribute not only to his authorship but to just as high a degree to the number of people from a wide variety of disciplines who have felt attracted or repelled by “Løgstrupian”considerations. Løgstrup is recalled as a charismatic figure, one who did not shy away from controversy and who not infrequently expressed his ideas with great eloquence.” — From the Translator’s Foreword

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8. Manfred Frings. Max Scheler. A Concise Introduction into the World of a Great Thinker. ISBN 0-87462-605-6. ©1996. Paperbound. Second edition, revised. Index. New Foreword by the author. $20

Chapters on The Biophysical World,
on the Emotional Spheres,
on the Ordo Amoris, on Ressentiment,
on Scheler’s Non-Formal Ethics of Values,
on the Human Person,
on the Person God,
on Knowledge and Reality,
and on the theme of Philosophical Anthropology in the Age of Adjustment.

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9. G. Heath King. Existence, Thought, Style: Perspectives of a Primary Relation, portrayed through the work of Søren Kierkegaard. ISBN 0-87462-606-4. ©1996. Paperbound. Index. $20

“English publication edited by Dr. Timothy Kircher,”Guilford College, of the 1986 work Existenz, Denken, Stil: Perspektiven einer Grundbeziehung. Dargestellt am Werk Sørens Kierkegaards (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter Verlag).

“I consider the work extraordinary, because it develops seriously the insight that since Kierkegaard we have come to realize how relevant the mode of existence of a philosopher is to his philosophizing. On the basis of this insight the author derives an understanding of style that has in view this very correspondence of thought and mode of existence. On account of the irreparable breach of the ideal identity between. thought and being, it is necessary to perceive existence, which is constantly present in language as a mediator, whenever it yields itself in temporal expression. This revelation occurs in the perception of style. In seems to me that the author’s thesis possesses great heuristic value.”— Bernhard Casper. Freiburg in Breisgau

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10. Paul Ricoeur. Key to Husserl’s Ideas I. Translated by Bond Harris and Jacqueline Bouchard Spurlock. Edited and with an Introduction by Pol Vandevelde. ISBN 0-87462-609-9. ©1996. Paperbound. Index. $20

In 1950 Paul Ricoeur published his masterful translation of Edumund Husserl’s most essential work, Ideen I, under the title Ideés directrices pour une phénoménologie. In presenting Husserl’s thought, Ricoeur offered a substantial introduction and copious notes that consitute a running commentary to the text in all its most difficult aspects. As a result we have in these 150 pages what is without doubt the best handbook and key to one of the most original minds of the century, the father of phenomenology and creator of the method that transformed continental from a moribund rationalism of the nineteeth century into a vibrant existetialism that remains in the minds of philosophers today an age of excitement not superseded by postmodernism. Ricoeur stides across this period as one of its major figues, as an interpretor and teacher, and as an original philosopher in his own right. The combination of Husserl and Ricoeur makes this Key to Husserl’s Ideas I one of the best instruments for professors and students alike.

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11. Karl Jaspers. Reason and Existenz. With an new Introduction by Pol Vandevelde. ISBN 0-87462-611-0. ©1997. Paperbound. Index. 180 pp. $20

The thought of Karl Jaspers, one of the foremost philosophers of existence, has been devoted to the explication of man’s situation in the world and the possibilities of his self-transcendence.

With the publication of Reason and Existenz, originally delivered as a series of five lectures at the University of Groningen in 1935, one of the most important of Jaspers’s philosophic works is made available to the English-speaking world. It concerns itself with a general statement of the principal philosophic categories which have given uniqueness to Jaspers’s thinking: existence, freedom and history, and the limit-situations of death, suffering, and sin. Written shortly after Jaspers’s major systematic work and before his analysis of the problem of truth, Reason and Existenz, occupies a primary position in the development of his thought.
One of the most famous European philosophers and, with Heidegger and Sartre, a foremost representative of existentialism, Karl Jaspers was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Basle.

“Every thoughtful reader must feel appreciation toward a philosopher who has lifted the controversy between 'rationalism' and 'existentialism' to a new and more creative level. This book will make history.”— Reinhold Niebuhr, The New Republic

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12. Gregory R. Beabout. Freedom and Its Misuses. Kierkegaard on Anxiety and Despair. ISBN 0-87462-612-9. ©1996. Paperbound. 192 pp. $20. Second edition, with corrections and a new Preface by the author, 2009.

This small and solid work is everything one hopes for in a book on Kierkegaard. It treats him as both a great thinker and a corrective to our time and is both scholarly and popular in the best sense of those terms. For Kierkegaard scholars it provides detailed and careful accounts of his key concepts of anxiety and despair, comments on much of the existing secondary literature on these topics, provides many helpful etymological insights and even contains a perceptive and generously noted use of my own Indices. It also does nice things like distinguishing between the “lower pseudonymous works,”the “upbuilding works,” and the “higher pseudonymous works.” It shows why Sartre is no match for Kierkegaard, why and how Alasdair MacIntyre has misrepresented him so badly and why finally Freud has nothing to say about human freedom. For the general reader it explains the radical significance of these Kierkegaardian concepts for our understanding of freedom and shows how they might yet serve to salvage a dream gone obviously and terribly wrong. I suspect that an equally careful treatment of the relevant texts would show that Kierkegaard is not an “individualist” but Professor Beabout has done a great deal to clarify and connect anxiety, despair and freedom and those who care about humanity can profit greatly from his labors.

Almost by accident I began reading this work late on Good Friday evening and finished it at noon on Saturday but in retrospect perhaps this was a mistake. Its publication is an occasion for joy and hope and no doubt I should have left the end until Easter morning. — From the Foreword by Alastair McKinnon

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14. Manfred S. Frings. The Mind of Max Scheler. ISBN 0-87462-613-7. ©1997. Paperbound. 328 pp. $35

This book is designed to fill a long-standing gap in the general literature of 20th century philosophy in that it offers a comprehensive view of the philosophy of Max Scheler (1874-1928) and opens up substantial discussions that have hitherto been largely overlooked. The book is solely based on the original texts of the German Collected Edition as well as posthumous and untranslated materials. References to English translations have been made whenever available.

The Mind of Max Scheler familiarizes the reader with strains of European thought that are rapidly gaining interest in the Americas, Asia, and Europe itself. Already the pivotal questions, “Who are we?” “What is a human being” reveal the relevance Scheler’s thought has to the self-questioning stance that appears to mark this century’s philosophy as a whole. He also presents us with a cosmic view of what it means to be human, and one is amazed at the scope of his approach that goes beyond his better known European contemporaries Heidegger, Husserl, Ortega, or philosophers of our present time. He addresses spurious value patterns that suffuse the age of capitalism and provides answers, among them, the gleaning of historical textures that are emerging toward the future and through which a lingering awareness of the eternal will eventually surface from the depths of human existence.

About the Author

After Manfred S. Frings had emigrated to the United States some forty years ago, he initiated what turned out to be an international pursuit of the philosophy of Max Scheler. In this, he had also followed in footsteps of Alfred Schütz who had pointed earlier to the profound place that Max Scheler would have in 20th century thought. Since 1970, Manfred Frings has been the editor of the German collected edition of Scheler’s Works (Gesammelte Werke) and director of the Max-Scheler-Archives, Munich and Albuquerque, N.M. (formerly Chicago). He is president of the international Max-Scheler-Gesellschaft, whose seat is at the University of Cologne. Professor Frings taught and lectured at many institutions of higher learning, at home and abroad. A number of his abundant publications on Scheler have been translated into Chinese, Japanese, and French. His work met with several personal expressions of gratitude and recognition, including those of Pope John Paul II and Martin Heidegger. 

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15. Claude Pavur. Nietzsche Humanist ISBN 0-87462-614-5. ©1998. Paperbound. 214 pp. $25

Supposing Nietzsche is a humanist-what then? Are there not grounds for the suspicion that we have not been well enough attuned to the ancient dimensions of our own identities to know what to do with this knowledge? Does our age’s preference for the novel and the revolutionary mean that unmasking Nietzsche this way will amount to his inevitable diminishment-and might that not be for the best, after all?

We may have needed to see him-and in his later years he may have felt the need to present himself-as the radical overturner of all things, as the beginning of a new millenium. We do want to feel that things are moving forward, do we not? Self-presentation as dramatic as that to which Nietzsche has given himself makes us wonder. Might it have been a strategy for obtaining a readership, one worked out during years of increasing isolation? Or was it perhaps compensatory grandeur for his utter neglect, or therapeutic ventilation, or the beginning of his breakdown? It is not at all impossible that he was simply caught up in a creative whirlwind as he fashioned his own Galatea, and that his intellectual art began to operate independently, following its own dynamics and seducing the artist whithersoever it willed. Perhaps, too, his late visions were deeply implicated in a long-labored upward-and-downward spiralling climb through many and many a beloved text-ah, through many a beloved meaning-toward what he had hoped would be his own beatitude. In that case, this “unmasking” might result not in the diminishment but in the expansion of Nietzsche’s own meaning. But Nietzsche the classical scholar? Nietzsche the humanistic pietist?! Do we recognize this Nietzsche? Should we?

As we near the hundreth anniversary of Nietzsche’s death, it may be time for a revaluation of the revaluator, time to shake some of the amnesia that haunts our submodernist culture with its penchant for parody. We need to take another look at one whose dark thunderings and frenzied lightning bolts have provided son et lumière for each succeeding generation in the twentieth century. No doubt he intended to pull us from the arms of some collective Morpheus-using to that end music that was itself usually entrancing, though not always melodious, not always harmonious. His influence has been staggering, but has it “worked“? Maybe the opera is not yet over. We should not, prematurely confident, assume that we have heard it all. Even if we have, we may need to replay it several times in order to come to appreciate it. Philology is the art of slow reading, as Nietzsche reminds us. It also is the art of reading widely and the art of reading repeatedly. There may be more magic here than we had at first suspected, more than we were ready to confess that we actually like-or deplore. But can we discover Nietzsche now? Did he hide himself in order to be discovered? Certainly he has eluded us, this man of knowledge, to the extent that we have not come to know ourselves. Perhaps his life and work were designed as a parable that would trick us into self-discovery. — From the author’s Preface

16. Pierre Rousselot, SJ. Intelligence: Sense of Being, Faculty of God. A New Translation of L’Intellectualisme de saint Thomas with a Foreword and Notes by Andrew Tallon. Volume 1 of Rousselot’s Collected Philosophical Works. ISBN 0-87462-615-3. ©1999. Paperbound. New Index. Bibliography. 240 pp. $30

“By intellectualism I understand a doctrine that places everything of worth, all of life’s intensity, and the very essence of the good, identical with being, in the act of intelligence: everything else can be good only by participation in it. When in current usage we hear talk of intellectualism people often mean only a naive confidence in intelligence and particularly in deductive reasoning. A more technical meaning, one that tends to prevail over the popular one, characterizes intellectualism by the primacy of static definitions and discursive reason. The essentially metaphysical doctrine in question here is quite different: beyond the theory that all being is capable of being explained, it is the complete opposite of a system that would conceive the life of the spirit on the model of human discursive reasoning. Accordingly, to the extent that the usual meaning of the term is developed and pushed to its ultimate consequences, the meaning here adopted would cease to coincide with it, and would end up diametrically opposed to it.“ — From the author’s Introduction

With these words Pierre Rousselot, the first and most original genius of what has come to be called “transcendental Thomism,” took on the rationalism of his day and proceeded to prove beyond doubt that the “intellectualism” of Thomas Aquinas was a completely different philosophy. In an emerging departure from the faculty psychology dominant in his day, he showed that Aquinas’s ratio meant a lower performance of intelligence-his preferred translation of intellectus, and that intellectus named the fullness of intelligent life enjoyed by the angels and God, in which we participate as the lowest in this hierarchy of intelligences. Reason is not the best we can do, because it is but the first of a series of substitutes we use for intelligence, which is a synthesis of cognition and affection in the service of action, a synthesis experienced in connaturality, a much neglected but central Thomist concept that Rousselot retrieved, practically single-handedly, in a masterly study of the complete Thomist corpus.
This new translation, with an extensive Foreword and notes by the translator, renders Rousselot’s text with greater accuracy than its predecessor. It inaugurates a new series of 4 volumes of Rousselot’s philosophical works. His work on love is next, followed by his published essays, and the series concludes with his unpublished notes, journals, and other papers, to be edited from the Jesuit Archives of France.

17. Immanurel Kant. Critique of Practical Reason. Translated by H.W. Cassirer. Edited by G. Heath King and Ronald Weitzman with an Introduction by D.M. MacKinnon. ISBN 0-87462-616-1. ©1998. Paperbound. New Index. 218 pp. $15

Kant’s Critique of Practical Reason is an acknowledged masterpiec of Western philosophy. The way H.W. Cassirer’s translation uncoils Kant’s attempt at reconciling determinism with moral freedom will enable serious students of philosophy—and theology—to engage anew not only with this theme but also with Kant’s whole tratement of God, freedom, and immortality. The unceasing intellectual rigor of this version articulates the process of the struggle bewteen free will and our natural inclinations,which in turn lies at the heart of Kant’s moral teaching. This translation affords the reader an at once deeper and more lucid account of Kant’s ageless thesis than has as yet been achieved in the English language.

H.W. Cassirer (son of Ernst Cassirer) wrote commentaries on Aristotle’s De Anima, and Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason and Critique of Judgment. Among his late works are Grace and Law, which explores both the similarites and the fierce contrasts between the moral teachings of St. Paul, Kant, and the Hebrew prophets, and a translation of the New Testament, God’s New Covenant. The questions of moral freedom, of good and evil, remained for him consuming preoccupations, and he made this translation of Kant’s Critique of Practical Reason towards the end of his life.

 

 

 

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18. Gabriel Marcel’s Perspectives on The Broken World. Translated by Katharine Rose Hanley. The Broken World, A Four-Act Play followed by “Concrete Approaches to Investigating the Ontological Mystery.” Six original illustrations by Stephen Healy. Commentaries by Henri Gouhier and Marcel Belay. Eight Appendices. Introduction by Ralph McInerny. Bibliographies. Indexes. ISBN 0-87462-617-X. ©1998. Paperbound. Index. 242 pp. $25

Gabriel Marcel (1889-1973) was a distinguished existential thinker of international renown. He authored some 30 plays and an equal number of philosophic writings. He won numerous literary prizes and even some peace prizes and was elected to the Institute of France-the highest honor his country can bestow upon an intellectual. In the 1950s and 1960s, he lectured throughout Europe and North and South America and along the Pacific Rim. Marcel is probably best known to English-speaking audiences for his philosophic writings, since most of these have been translated into English, whereas only ten of his plays are thus far available in English. In Marcel’s 1961 William James Lectures at Harvard University, he expressed the hope that American audiences would someday be familiar with his theater. It is a joy to see The Broken World available again to readers of English, for it is one of Marcel’s finest and most important plays and marks a capital moment in the evolution of his thought. It is a powerful, touching, and deeply moving piece, full of intrigue and surprising turns, including a stunning ending that takes readers into the realm of mystery. — Katharine Rose Hanley, From the translator’s Preface

“The common target of the play and the essay is mystery-not mystery in the full religious sense, but the sense of mystery that Marcel distinguished from the problem. We may be tempted to say that philosophy deals with problems and art with mysteries, but this is not at all what Gabriel Marcel holds. It is the sense of mystery and its unique revelatory role that he seeks to restore to philosophy. If he had done nothing else, his success in this matter would constitute a major contribution to philosophy. You and I might be reminded a bit of Graham Greene’s theatrical work when we read The Broken World in the excellent translation put before us here. Of course any influence would have gone in the other direction. Greene signals the role that Péguy and Mauriac played in his artistic development as a Catholic writer. I do not remember similar allusions to Marcel. Perhaps there are some. I hope so. We will also think of T.S. Eliot’s theatrical works. Eliot and Greene provide the kind of surprise Marcel provides in the final act of the play before us. I have said the translation is excellent. It is. It reads easily and with almost no sense that the very idiomatic English is replacing a very idiomatic French. No one but Katharine Rose Hanley could have provided such a translation. a very powerful aesthetic and then philosophical experience.” — From the Introduction by Ralph McInerny, University of Notre Dame

19. Christopher Kaczor, Editor. Proportionalism: For and Against. ISBN 0-87462-618-8. ©2000. Paperbound. Index. 492 pp. $40

“A revolution has taken place among those teaching and writing about ethics in the Catholic tradition. As Richard McCormick notes, a generation ago moralists debated about the morality of ’knitting as servile work, of organ-playing at non-Catholic services, of calling non-Catholic ministers for dying non-Catholics, of steady dating among adolescents, of the gravity of using rhythm without a proportionate reason’...about whether chewing gum broke the Eucharistic fast and Roman theologians who warned of the dangers of ’masked balls’ and certain dances such as the fox-trot, charleston, rumba, and boogie-woogie.

“Times have changed. Today a majority of ethicists in this same tradition question, if not deny, the existence of any moral absolute whatsoever. Unanimous agreement on Catholic teaching about abortion, euthanasia, just war, and sexuality dissolved in just a few years into a cantankerous battle among theologians and philosophers fighting not only about the resolution to this or that particularly difficult case, but also about what constitutes the very fundamentals of morality, in most cases a battle over the moral theory called ’proportionalism.’ What is proportionalism? This book offers an introductory answer to this question through a number of the ’foundational articles’ of those who first advocated this new approach to resolving conflict situations in the moral life and through some of the fundamental critiques of this revision. Among ethicists in the contemporary Catholic tradition, proportionalism is arguably the most influential and prevalent theory of making moral decisions. ’So-called proportionalists include some of the best known names in moral theology throughout the world .... My acquaintance with the literature leads me to believe that most theologians share similar perspectives,’ McCormick states. The sociological influence of proportionalism should not be underestimated.

“Although proportionalism is perhaps the most influential moral theory in Catholic circles, it might also lay claim to being among the most controversial. Though often accused by its critics of being a form of classical utilitarianism, proportionalism is more accurately described as a type of moral analysis that determines the rightness or wrongness of an act by reference to the proportion of non-moral goods and evils caused by the act.“ — From the Editor’s Introduction by Christopher Kaczor

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21. Gene Fendt. Is Hamlet a Religious Drama. An Essay on a Question in Kierkegaard. ISBN 0-87462-620-X. ©1998. Paperbound. Index. 264 pp. $30

“Hamlet is the figure and great pivoting mirror of the Western soul, the normative creation of character which life but sadly imitates, and as each one must come to terms with what man is, so he and she must come to terms with Hamlet.
“The progress swells on apace.
“When a person has thought about a work of literature for a long time, read it or taught with it frequently, lived with its spirits and the questions it raises-about itself and about oneself-it becomes difficult to tell how certain insights originated, or achieved their status as true, or became an emblem of one’s own hopes, despair, defeat, longed for victory. I suppose that living with a work of literature in this way is something like speaking with ghosts, somewhat like getting news from another world. Something originally vague and questionable, heard and wondered about, slowly takes on the shape and body of the familiar. During any such process some moments come to stand out as definitive: a face blanches peculiarly, a certain gesture, or half a line of distant prose, unlocks a door near the heart of the mystery, while forceful and intent investigation leads up a narrow stair to a belfry rocking with the peal of bells and shuttered against any but a slatted vista of an uncertain country.” — From the author’s Introduction

Dr. Gene Fendt is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Nebraska at Kearney and the author of numerous books and articles, among them: For What May I Hope? Thinking with Kant and Kierkegaard (1990), Works of Love? Reflections on Works of Love (1990), and Platonic Errors: Essays on the Poetrty of Plato (with David Rozema) (1998). An award-winning poet and playwright, he has lectured widely on philosophy and literature. In 1996 was an Invited Scholar chosen by the University of Copenhagen to conduct seminars in Denmark on Kierkegaard and Meaning.

 

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22. Michael Gelven. This Side of Evil. ISBN 0-87462-621-9. ©1998. Paperbound. 158 pp. $20

“We are witness to the unspeakable.
“The sweet child is ravaged by cruelty. Entire peoples are marched to death camps. Whole villages are swept out into the angry, tidal sea. Our weakness wreaks anguish on those loyal to us. The ungrateful mock the gracious. The beautiful is defiled by the obscene. These are evil things, and the evil in them is real.
“Some deny this reality. They stop their ears to the reports of death camps, turn their eyes from cigarette burns on the eyelids of the abused child, seek excuses in the wrangle of social cause on behalf of the vilest, interpret horrors as mere natural phenomena, and preen themselves with what they deem their enlightenment. They judge not, and would not be judged. But judgment is a necessity if evil be real. We are witness to this reality, and to deny it is itself evil, perhaps the greatest evil. As witness to the reality of evil we are stunned speechless and therein lies the fiercest paradox. For the more we try to make sense of evil, the less evil it becomes. To explain evil is to make it coherent, but it is the very incoherence of it that stuns us into mute impotence. It seems that to explain it by making it thinkable, we render it acceptable. But to accept evil is unacceptable. What can we do with the incoherent except turn our backs on it, deny it? Like the three ignoble monkeys we then neither see nor hear nor speak of it. Which is worse: to deny the reality of evil to save our reason, or deny reason to retain the reality of evil?”

Thus opens the first chapter of this profound and penetrating study of the phenomenon of evil, its experience, significance, and importance.

Dr. Michael Gelven is Distinguished Research Professor of Philosophy at Northern Illinois University and the author of ten books, among them The Risk of Being: What It Means to Be Good and Bad (1997), The Quest for the Fine: Judgment, Worth and Existence (1995), War and Existence (1993), Why Me? A Philosophical Inquiry into Fate (1991), Spirit and Existence (1990), Truth and Existence (1990), Winter, Friendship and Guilt: The Sources of Self Inquiry (1973), and A Commentary on Heidegger’s Being and Time (1970, revised 1989).

27. Gordon D. Marino. Kierkegaard in the Present Age. Preface by Philip Rieff. ISBN 0-87462-604-8. ©2001. Paperbound. 125 pp. $15

 

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