Opening doors
Subtitle: thought from (and of) the outside
By: Garry Watson.
Publisher: Davies Group, Publishers
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Aurora, Colo
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781934542064
Subjects: Religion
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface: A different kind of meditation; title: Part I: Introductory; title: A polemical clearing of the ground : Harris, Hitchens and Dawkins' lack of scruple : the unimpressive face of atheism (and what-with the help of its other face-we can learn from it); title: Why we need to rethink religion; title: Part II: The outside; title: Shifting focus from the "outsider" to the "outside"; title: Thought from (and of) the outside : Lawrence, Levinas and Derrida : at the firing line and into the unknown; title: Thought from (and of) the outside : Abraham and Isaac : hospitality, the messianic turn and the religious suspension of the ethical (Derrida, Kierkegaard, Leavis, Conrad, Agamben and others); title: Balancing as we go : slave or noble, Abrahamic or Hellenic?; title: Conclusion : "Driv[ing] on to the edge of the unknown and beyond".