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Converts to the Real : Catholicism and the Making of Continental Philosophy /

Baring, Edward

Converts to the Real : Catholicism and the Making of Continental Philosophy / Edward Baring. - 1 online resource (448 p.)

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I: Neo-Scholastic Conversions: 1900-1930 -- 1. The Struggle for Legitimacy: Neo-Scholasticism and Phenomenology -- 2. Betrayal: Husserl's Transcendental Turn and the Idealism / Realism Debate -- 3. An Ecumenical Atheism: Martin Heidegger's Existential Phenomenology -- 4. The Vital Faith of Max Scheler -- Part II: Existential Journeys: 1930-1940 -- 5. Christian Existentialism across Europe -- 6. The Cartesian Thomist -- 7. The Secular Kierkegaard -- 8. The Black Nietzsche -- Part III: Catholic Legacies: 1940-1950 -- 9. Saving the Husserl Archives -- 10. Postwar Phenomenology -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index

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Phenomenology has the strongest claim to the mantle of continental philosophy. Edward Baring shows that credit for its prodigious growth goes to a surprising group of early enthusiasts: Catholic intellectuals. Tracing debates in Europe from existentialism to speculative realism, he shows why European philosophy bears the mark of Catholicism.




Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.


In English.

9780674988378 9780674238978

10.4159/9780674238978 doi


Catholics--Intellectual life--Europe--20th century.
Phenomenological theology.
Phenomenology.
Philosophy and religion--History--Europe--20th century.
PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Phenomenology.

B829.5 / .B3355 2019eb

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