- Twentieth-Century Philosophy of Religion
The History of Western Philosophy of Religion 5
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- Editor(s):
Graham Oppy and N. N. Trakakis
- ISBN: 1844656853
- ISBN-13: 9781844656851
- Publication Date: 31 Jul 2013
- Pages: 356 (234 x 156 mm)
- Format: Paperback
- Published Price: £22.99
- Discount Price: £18.39
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DESCRIPTION:
The twentieth century saw religion challenged by the rise of science and secularism, a confrontation which resulted in an astonishingly diverse range of philosophical views about religion and religious belief. Many of the major philosophers of the twentieth century – James, Bergson, Russell, Wittgenstein, Ayer, Heidegger, and Derrida – significantly engaged with religious thought. Idiosyncratic thinkers, such as Whitehead, Levinas and Weil, further contributed to the extraordinary diversity of philosophical investigation of religion across the century. In their turn, leading theologians and religious philosophers – notably Buber, Tillich and Barth – directly engaged with the philosophy of religion. Later, philosophy of religion became a distinct field of study, led by the work of Hick, Alston, Plantinga, and Swinburne. Twentieth-Century Philosophy of Religion provides an accessible overview of the major strands in the rich tapestry of twentieth-century thought about religion and will be an indispensible resource for any interested in contemporary philosophy of religion.
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REVIEWS:
“Vibrant, contentious and constructive, these essays powerfully demonstrate that the last century is by any standard a critical period for progress in the history of western philosophy of religion.” – Pamela Anderson, University of Oxford.
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AUTHOR BIO:
Graham Oppy is a Professor of Philosophy and Head of the School of Philosophical, Historical and International Studies (SOPHIS) at Monash University, Australia. N. N.Trakakis is a Research Fellow in Philosophy, and Assistant Director of the Centre for the Philosophy and Phenomenology of Religion, at the Australian Catholic University.
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CONTENTS:
1. Introduction, Charles Taliaferro
2. William James, Richard M. Gale
3. Henri Bergson, John Mullarkey
4. John Dewey, Steven C. Rockefeller
5. Alfred North Whitehead and Charles Hartshorne, Lewis S. Ford
6. Bertrand Russell, A. C. Grayling
7. Max Scheler, Quentin Smith
8. Martin Buber, Tamra Wright
9. Jacques Maritain, Peter A. Redpath
10. Karl Jaspers, Kurt Salamun
11. Paul Tillich, William L. Rowe
12. Karl Barth, Paul Dafydd Jones
13. Ludwig Wittgenstein, Genia Schoenbaumsfeld
14. Martin Heidegger, Laurence Paul Hemming
15. Emmanuel Levinas, Jeffrey L. Kosky
16. Simone Weil, Stephen Plant
17. A. J. Ayer, Graham Macdonald
18. William P. Alston, Daniel Howard-Snyder
19. John Hick, Paul Badham
20. Mary Daly, Anne-Marie Korte
21. Jacques Derrida, Kevin Hart
22. Alvin Plantinga, James F. Sennett
23. Richard Swinburne, Bruce Langtry
24. Late-twentieth-century atheism, Graham Oppy & N. N. Trakakis
