Self and Other: Essays in Continental Philosophy of Religion

It is well known that the philosophy of religion has flourished in recent decades in Anglo-American philosophy, where philosophers are bringing new techniques to the study of many of the traditional problems. Although there is more diversity in Anglo-Amer

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SELF AND OTHER: ESSAYS IN CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION

Edited by

Eugene Thomas Long University of South Carolina Columbia, SC, USA

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Reprinted from : The International Journal for Philosophy of Religion Volume 60, Nos. 1-3, December 2006

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Special Issue Self and Other: Essays in Continental Philosophy of Religion Eugene Thomas Long (University of South Carolina, USA) Self and other: An introduction Michael Purcell (University of Edinburgh, UK) On Hesitation before the Other Richard A. Cohen (University of North Carolina, USA) Levinas: thinking least about death — contra Heidegger Pamela Sue Anderson (Oxford, UK) Life, death and (inter)subjectivity: realism and recognition in continental feminism William Franke (Vanderbilt University, USA) Apophasis and the turn of philosophy to religion: From Neoplatonic negative theology to postmodern negation of theology Hent de Vries (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) From “ghost in the machine” to “spiritual automaton”: Philosophical meditation in Wittgenstein, Cavell, and Levinas Anselm K. Min (Claremont Graduate University, USA) Naming the Unnameable God: Levinas, Derrida, and Marion Merold Westphal (Fordham University, USA) Vision and voice: Phenomenology and theology in the work of Jean-Luc Marion Eugene Thomas Long (University of South Carolina, USA) Suffering and transcendence Calvin O. Schrag (Purdue University, USA) Otherness and the problem of evil: How does that which is other become evil? Edith Wyschogrod Repentance and forgiveness: the undoing of time Fred Dallmayr (University of Notre Dame, USA) An end to evil? Philosophical and political reflections Maeve Cooke (University College Dublin, Ireland) Salvaging and secularizing the semantic contents of religion: the limitations of Habermas’s postmetaphysical proposal

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Int J Philos Relig (2006) 60:1–7 DOI 10.1007/s11153-006-0001-x O R I G I NA L PA P E R

Self and other: An introduction Eugene Thomas Long

Received: 15 December 2005 / Accepted: 20 January 2006 / Published online: 28 November 2006 © Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2006

It is well known that the philosophy of religion has flourished in recent decades in Anglo-American philosophy where philosop