Knowing Other-Wise : Philosophy at the Threshold of Spirituality / James H. Olthuis.
Olthuis, James H., author.; Dudiak, Jeffrey M., contributor.; Hart, Carroll Guen, contributor.; Hart, Hendrik, contributor.; Kuipers, Ronald A., contributor.; Olthuis, James H., contributor.; Smith, James K. A., contributor.; Wesselius, Janet Catherina, contributor.
2023
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Title Knowing Other-Wise : Philosophy at the Threshold of Spirituality / James H. Olthuis.
Author Olthuis, James H., author.
ISBN 9780823295982
DOI https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823295982
Published New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2023]
Copyright ©1997
Language English
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Description 1 online resource (268 p.)
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1515/9780823295982 doi
Summary Recent discussions in the various circles of feminism, postmodernism, and environmentalism have begun to make clear that ontology and epistemology without ethics is deadly - oppressive to women, oppressive to men, oppressive to the earth. In response to this crisis of reason in modernity, this collection of essays suggests the importance of knowing other-wise, non-rational ways of knowing which are wise to the "other" - a spiritual knowing of the heart with the passionate eye of love. Knowing Other-wise calls into question the Western philosophical tradition of giving pride of place to reason in the acquisition of knowledge. Reasoning is only one of many ways in which we engage, i.e. know, the world. We know more than we think. We know by touch, by feel, by taste, by sight, by sounds, by smell, by symbols, by sex, by trust - by means of every modality of human experience. Philosophy becomes, in the fashion of Levinas, "the wisdom of love at the service of love. Tracing connections between epistemology, ethics, and spirituality - between "knowing" and the "other," between an other and the Other - all the essays serve as points of convergence between postmodern discussions and the Calvinian spirituality which is the home for writers in this collection. In particular, this collection explores the contributions of feminist thought and thinkers such as Emmanuel Levinas, Richard Rorty, Jacqes Derrida, and John D. Caputo to a spiritually and ethically sensitive knowing.
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Added Author Dudiak, Jeffrey M., contributor.
Hart, Carroll Guen, contributor.
Hart, Hendrik, contributor.
Kuipers, Ronald A., contributor.
Olthuis, James H., contributor.
Smith, James K. A., contributor.
Wesselius, Janet Catherina, contributor.
Series Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
In Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
Fordham University Press eBook-Package Archive Pre-2000
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Frontmatter
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Love/Knowledge: Sojourning with Others, Meeting with Differences
PHILOSOPHY AND ITS OTHER
1. Conceptual Understanding and Knowing Other-wise: Reflections on Rationality and Spirituality in Philosophy
2. Points of Convergence Between Dooyeweerdian and Feminist Views of the Philosophic Self
3. Taking the Risk of Essence: A Deweyan Theory in Some Feminist Conversations
ETHICS AND/OF THE OTHER
4. Singular Interruptions: Rortian Liberalism and the Ethics of Deconstruction
5. Face-to-Face: Ethical Asymmetry or the Symmetry of Mutuality?
6. Structures of Violence, Structures of Peace: Levinasian Reflections on Just War and Pacifism
7. Again Ethics: A Levinasian Reading of Caputo Reading Levinas
A GOD WITH/FOR THE OTHER
8. How to Avoid Not Speaking: Attestations
9. Crossing the Threshold: Sojourning Together in the Wild Spaces of Love
Index
Notes on Contributors

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