Rethinking metaphysics
By: edited by L. Gregory Jones and Stephen E. Fowl.
Contributors: Jones, L. Gregory.; Fowl, Stephen E.
Series: Directions in modern theology
Publisher: Blackwell Publishers; Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Oxford, UK; Cambridge, MA, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 165
Subjects: Metaphysics.; Theology.
Description: Out of the ashes of the post-modern critique of metaphysics comes a series of important essays which re-think the place of metaphysics in theological and philosophical inquiry. This book ranges across a variety of philosophical and theological traditions, engaging such figures as Plato and Augustine, as well as Gillian Rose, Jacques Derrida, Donald Davidson, C. S. Peirce, and Jean Luc Marion.

The authors of these essays directly confront a variety of post-modern critiques of metaphysical speculation, while, nonetheless, arguing that there is still a significant future for reflection on metaphysical questions. Unified by an agreement about the urgent need to re-think metaphysics rather than a common set of answers, these essays should provoke a wide-ranging and lively discussion among philosophers and theologians.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.