Mark C. Taylor is een godsdienstfilosoof die zich verdiept in de complexe wisselwerking tussen geloof en moderniteit. Zijn werk onderzoekt kritisch hoe religieus denken evolueert binnen de hedendaagse samenleving en technologie, op zoek naar nieuwe kaders voor het begrijpen van spiritualiteit. Taylor's benadering is diep interdisciplinair en verweeft filosofie, theologie en cultuurtheorie om het veranderende landschap van geloof te verkennen.
The book reevaluates the contributions of two influential philosophers, suggesting that modern philosophy is shaped by their contrasting ideas. The author, a scholar in humanities and religion, provides a fresh perspective in a new introduction to the original 1980 edition, inviting readers to explore the philosophical landscape that emerges from their dialogue.
This work reevaluates the contributions of two influential philosophers, suggesting that modern philosophy is shaped by their contrasting ideas. The author, a scholar in humanities and religion, provides a fresh introduction to the original 1980 edition, highlighting the ongoing relevance of these philosophical debates. Through this analysis, the book invites readers to explore the foundational tensions that continue to influence contemporary thought.
"In the vast literature of love, The Seducer's Diary is an intricate curiosity--a feverishly intellectual attempt to reconstruct an erotic failure as a pedagogic success, a wound masked as a boast," observes John Updike in his foreword to Søren Kierkegaard's narrative. This work, a chapter from Kierkegaard's first major volume, Either/Or, springs from his relationship with his fiancée, Regine Olsen. Kierkegaard fell in love with the young woman, ten years his junior, proposed to her, but then broke off their engagement a year later. This event affected Kierkegaard profoundly. Olsen became a muse for him, and a flood of volumes resulted. His attempt to set right, in writing, what he feels was a mistake in his relationship with Olsen taught him the secret of "indirect communication." The Seducer's Diary, then, becomes Kierkegaard's attempt to portray himself as a scoundrel and thus make their break easier for her. Matters of marriage, the ethical versus the aesthetic, dread, and, increasingly, the severities of Christianity are pondered by Kierkegaard in this intense work.
" Erring is a thoughtful, often brilliant attempt to describe and enact what remains of (and for) theology in the wake of deconstruction. Drawing on Hegel, Nietzsche, Derrida, and others, Mark Taylor extends—and goes well beyond—pioneering efforts. . . . The result is a major book, comprehensive and well-informed."—G. Douglas Atkins, Philosophy and Literature"Many have felt the need for a study which would explicate in coherent and accessible fashion the principal tenets of deconstruction, with particular attention to their theological implications. This need the author has addressed in a most impressive manner. The book's effect upon contemporary discussion is apt to be, and deserves to be, far-reaching."—Walter Lowe, Journal of Religion