Religion and the Hermaneutics of Contemplation

By: Phillips, D. Z. (Dewi Zephaniah)

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TextPublisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2001Description: xiv, 330 p., table, 23 cmISBN: 0521803683; 9780521803687; 0521008468; 9780521008464Subject(s): Religion -- Philosophy -- Methodology | -- Hermeneutics -- Religious aspectsLOC classification: BL 51 .P519 R44 2001

Contents:

1. Hermeneutics and the philosophical future of religious studies -- 1. The present contenders: the hermeneutics of recollection and the hermeneutics of suspicion -- 2. The hermeneutics of contemplation -- 3. Beyond interpretation to contemplation -- 4. Beyond frameworks and grids to concept-formation -- 5. Suspicion about suspicion -- 6. The hermeneutics of contemplation and Wittgensteinian Fideism -- 2. Bernard Williams on the gods and us -- 1. Hermeneutics and modernity -- 2. Assumptions about the gods -- 3. Questioning the assumptions -- 3. Hume's legacy -- 1. Hume and hermeneutics -- 2. Hume's first level of criticism -- 3. Hume's second level of criticism -- 4. Hume's third level of criticism -- 5. Hume's 'true religion' -- 6. Hume on miracles -- 7. Beyond design to a song of creation -- 8. Hume's one-sided diet -- 9. Hume and us -- 4. Feuerbach: religion's secret? -- 1. Feuerbach and demystification -- 2. God among the predicates -- 3. God and the human species -- 4. Contradiction and contemplation -- 5. Death and finitude -- 6. Contemplating reactions to death -- 7. God and death -- 8. Conclusions about death -- 5. Marx and Engels: religion, alienation and compensation -- 1. Marxism and monism -- 2. Religion and ideology -- 6. Tylor and Frazer: are religious beliefs mistaken hypotheses? -- 1. Animism and intellectualism -- 2. Animism, souls and spirits -- 3. What rituals can be -- 4. Rituals and the mythology in our language -- 5. Rituals and explanations -- 7. Marett: primitive reactions -- 1. Marett and anti-intellectualism -- 2. Marett and suspicion -- 3. In the beginning was the dance -- 4. Marett's other course -- 8. Freud: the battle for 'earliest' things -- 1. Contemplation of 'earliest' things -- 2. 'The unconscious' and conditions of intelligibility -- 3. Religion and the three conditions of intelligibility -- 4. Freud's monistic vision -- 5. Freud's monism and cultural movements -- 6. Freud's blind spots -- 7. Psychoanalysis and religion -- 9. Durkheim: religion as a social construct -- 1. Anti-animism -- 2. The science without a subject -- 3. Social solidarity: a case of logical inversion -- 4. Social constructs and independent realities -- 10. Levy-Bruhl: primitive logic -- 1. 'Prelogical thought' -- 2. Can we understand magico-religious beliefs? -- 3. Lessons from Levy-Bruhl -- 11. Berger: the avoidance of discourse -- 1. Pluralism and marketing religion -- 2. Berger's sociological story -- 3. The fate of values and criticism -- 4. The fate of alienation and liberation -- 5. The language of sociology and the sociologising of language -- 12. Winch: trying to understand -- 1. Language, belief and reality -- 2. Understanding a primitive culture -- 3. Extending our understanding -- 4. Whose understanding? -- 13. Understanding: a philosophical vocation -- 1. A problem for contemplative philosophy -- 2. A philosophical imperative.

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Footnotes, references and index.

1. Hermeneutics and the philosophical future of religious studies --
1. The present contenders: the hermeneutics of recollection and the hermeneutics of suspicion --
2. The hermeneutics of contemplation --
3. Beyond interpretation to contemplation --
4. Beyond frameworks and grids to concept-formation --
5. Suspicion about suspicion --
6. The hermeneutics of contemplation and Wittgensteinian Fideism --
2. Bernard Williams on the gods and us --
1. Hermeneutics and modernity --
2. Assumptions about the gods --
3. Questioning the assumptions --
3. Hume's legacy --
1. Hume and hermeneutics --
2. Hume's first level of criticism --
3. Hume's second level of criticism --
4. Hume's third level of criticism --
5. Hume's 'true religion' --
6. Hume on miracles --
7. Beyond design to a song of creation --
8. Hume's one-sided diet --
9. Hume and us --
4. Feuerbach: religion's secret? --
1. Feuerbach and demystification --
2. God among the predicates --
3. God and the human species --
4. Contradiction and contemplation --
5. Death and finitude --
6. Contemplating reactions to death --
7. God and death --
8. Conclusions about death --
5. Marx and Engels: religion, alienation and compensation --
1. Marxism and monism --
2. Religion and ideology --
6. Tylor and Frazer: are religious beliefs mistaken hypotheses? --
1. Animism and intellectualism --
2. Animism, souls and spirits --
3. What rituals can be --
4. Rituals and the mythology in our language --
5. Rituals and explanations --
7. Marett: primitive reactions --
1. Marett and anti-intellectualism --
2. Marett and suspicion --
3. In the beginning was the dance --
4. Marett's other course --
8. Freud: the battle for 'earliest' things --
1. Contemplation of 'earliest' things --
2. 'The unconscious' and conditions of intelligibility --
3. Religion and the three conditions of intelligibility --
4. Freud's monistic vision --
5. Freud's monism and cultural movements --
6. Freud's blind spots --
7. Psychoanalysis and religion --
9. Durkheim: religion as a social construct --
1. Anti-animism --
2. The science without a subject --
3. Social solidarity: a case of logical inversion --
4. Social constructs and independent realities --
10. Levy-Bruhl: primitive logic --
1. 'Prelogical thought' --
2. Can we understand magico-religious beliefs? --
3. Lessons from Levy-Bruhl --
11. Berger: the avoidance of discourse --
1. Pluralism and marketing religion --
2. Berger's sociological story --
3. The fate of values and criticism --
4. The fate of alienation and liberation --
5. The language of sociology and the sociologising of language --
12. Winch: trying to understand --
1. Language, belief and reality --
2. Understanding a primitive culture --
3. Extending our understanding --
4. Whose understanding? --
13. Understanding: a philosophical vocation --
1. A problem for contemplative philosophy --
2. A philosophical imperative.

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