Knowing Other-Wise: Philosophy at the Threshold of Spirituality

James H. Olthuis

Published by Fordham University Press 1997

Knowing Other-Wise

Philosophy at the Threshold of Spirituality

James H. Olthuis

In the series Perspectives in Continental Philosophy

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823295982

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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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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction: Love/Knowledge: Sojourning with Others, Meeting with Differences James H. Olthuis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
PHILOSOPHY AND ITS OTHER
1. Conceptual Understanding and Knowing Other-wise: Reflections on Rationality and Spirituality in Philosophy Hendrik Hart Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	19
2. Points of Convergence Between Dooyeweerdian and Feminist Views of the Philosophic Self Janet Catherina Wesselius Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	54
3. Taking the Risk of Essence: A Deweyan Theory in Some Feminist Conversations Carroll Guen Hart Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	69
ETHICS AND/OF THE OTHER
4. Singular Interruptions: Rortian Liberalism and the Ethics of Deconstruction Ronald A. Kuipers Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	105
5. Face-to-Face: Ethical Asymmetry or the Symmetry of Mutuality? James H. Olthuis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	131
6. Structures of Violence, Structures of Peace: Levinasian Reflections on Just War and Pacifism Jeffrey M. Dudiak Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	159
7. Again Ethics: A Levinasian Reading of Caputo Reading Levinas Jeffrey M. Dudiak Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	172
A GOD WITH/FOR THE OTHER
8. How to Avoid Not Speaking: Attestations James K. A. Smith Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	217
9. Crossing the Threshold: Sojourning Together in the Wild Spaces of Love James H. Olthuis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	235
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	259
Notes on Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	267

Language: English
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 268

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