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Founders of Constructive Postmodern Philosophy

Author : David Ray Griffin

Publisher : SUNY Press

Page : 258 pages

File Size : 49,6 MB

Release : 1993-01-01

Category : Philosophy

ISBN : 9780791413333

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In presenting Peirce, James, Bergson, Whitehead, and Hartshorne as members of a common and distinctively postmodern trajectory, this book casts the thought of each of them in a new light. It also suggests a new direction for the philosophical community as a whole, now that the various forms of modern philosophy, and even the deconstructive form of postmodern philosophy, are widely perceived to be dead-ends. This new option offers the possibility that philosophy may recover its role as critic and guide within the more general culture, a recovery that is desperately needed in these perilous times.



Being and Value

Author : Frederick Ferre

Publisher : SUNY Press

Page : 428 pages

File Size : 20,31 MB

Release : 1996-01-01

Category : Philosophy

ISBN : 9780791427552

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Being and Value begins with a discussion on metaphysics, showing the vital relationship between human life and the philosophical placement of value, and emphasizing the current transition from the old mechanical worldview to the postmodern alternative inspired by ecology. Being and Value shows how intimately premodern philosophy bound value into the fabric of things, and analyzes the expulsion of value from factual being during the modern period. Special attention is given to beauty: What is the relationship between the subjective and objective conditions of beauty? Is the beauty of nature merely the product of human appreciation? The answer is that beauty - and value - is a more potent ingredient in the structure of things than modern reductionism allows.



Whitehead's Radically Different Postmodern Philosophy

Author : David Ray Griffin

Publisher : State University of New York Press

Page : 318 pages

File Size : 32,94 MB

Release : 2012-02-01

Category : Philosophy

ISBN : 0791480305

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Postmodern philosophy is often dismissed as unintelligible, self-contradictory, and as a passing fad with no contribution to make to the problems faced by philosophers in our time. While this characterization may be true of the type of philosophy labeled postmodern in the 1980s and 1990s, David Ray Griffin argues that Alfred North Whitehead had formulated a radically different type of postmodern philosophy to which these criticisms do not apply. Griffin shows the power of Whitehead's philosophy in dealing with a range of contemporary issues—the mind-body relation, ecological ethics, truth as correspondence, the relation of time in physics to the (irreversible) time of our lives, and the reality of moral norms. He also defends a distinctive dimension of Whitehead's postmodernism, his theism, against various criticisms, including the charge that it is incompatible with relativity theory.



Process and Difference

Author : Catherine Keller

Publisher : State University of New York Press

Page : 297 pages

File Size : 14,29 MB

Release : 2012-02-01

Category : Religion

ISBN : 0791488985

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The similarities and creative tensions between French-based poststructuralism and Whiteheadian process thought are examined here by leading scholars. Although both approaches are labeled "postmodern," their own proponents often take them to be so dissimilar as to be opposed. Contributors to this book, however, argue that processing these differences of theory at a deeper level may cultivate fertile and innovative modes of reflection. Through their comparisons, contrasts, and hybridizations of process and poststructuralist theories, the contributors variously redefine concepts of divinity and cosmos, advance the interaction between science and religion, and engage the sex/gender and religious ethics of otherness and subjectivity.



Varieties of Postmodern Theology

Author : David Ray Griffin

Publisher : SUNY Press

Page : 188 pages

File Size : 50,60 MB

Release : 1989-07-01

Category : Religion

ISBN : 9780791400517

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This book sorts out the confusion created by the use of the term “postmodern” in relation to widely divergent theological positions. Four different types of postmodern theology are distinguished in the preface: constructive, deconstructive, liberationist, and conservative. Two forms of each type are discussed in the book. Writing from a constructive, postmodern perspective, the authors enter into dialogue with the deconstructive postmodernism of Mark C. Taylor and Jean-François Lyotard, with the liberationist postmodernism of Harvey Cox and Cornel West, and with the conservative postmodernism of George William Rutler and John Paul II.



Knowing and Value

Author : Frederick Ferre

Publisher : SUNY Press

Page : 416 pages

File Size : 46,71 MB

Release : 1998-01-01

Category : Philosophy

ISBN : 9780791439890

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Offers a postmodern theory of knowledge based on an ecological worldview that stresses real relations and the pervasiveness of values.



Living and Value

Author : Frederick Ferre

Publisher : SUNY Press

Page : 388 pages

File Size : 38,52 MB

Release : 2001-05-31

Category : Philosophy

ISBN : 9780791450604

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Based on an ecologically inspired wordview, defends ethics against skepticism and irrealism.



Primordial Truth and Postmodern Theology

Author : David Ray Griffin

Publisher : State University of New York Press

Page : 234 pages

File Size : 22,96 MB

Release : 1989-10-19

Category : Religion

ISBN : 1438404948

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In this book, Huston Smith and David Ray Griffin propose religious philosophies to succeed the waning worldview of modernity. Huston Smith proposes the perennial philosophy or primordial tradition, and David Ray Griffin offers postmodern process theology. The ultimate issue debated is whether we should return to a traditional religious philosophy or seek a new never-before-articulated worldview. The debate covers the following issues: the relation of Christianity to other religions; the ultimate reality of a personal God in relation to a transpersonal absolute; the ultimate reality of time and progress; the problem of evil; the nature of immortality; the relation of humans to nature; the relation of science to theology; the relation of upward to downward causation; and the possibility of nonrelativistic criteria for deciding between competing worldviews.



The Tacit Mode

Author : Jerry H. Gill

Publisher : State University of New York Press

Page : 210 pages

File Size : 37,48 MB

Release : 2000-01-06

Category : Philosophy

ISBN : 079149327X

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The Tacit Mode exposes and explores the central insights in Michael Polanyi's major works. It focuses on his epistemological insights concerning tacit knowing, and explores their ramifications for philosophy, science, art, language, political theory, and religion. The notion of tacit knowledge reconstructs the modern concept of objectivity while avoiding the self-stultifying effects of "deconstructivist" postmodernism and puts Polanyi on the cutting edge of contemporary philosophy.



God and Religion in the Postmodern World

Author : David Ray Griffin

Publisher : SUNY Press

Page : 196 pages

File Size : 27,72 MB

Release : 1989-01-01

Category : Religion

ISBN : 9780887069307

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Addressed to readers who have found liberal theology empty or who believe that one cannot be religious and fully rational and empirical at the same time.