Research Catalog

Title

In the throe of wonder : intimations of the sacred in a post-modern world / Jerome A. Miller.

Author

Miller, Jerome A., 1946-

Publication

Albany : State University of New York Press, c1992.

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Details

Description

xiii, 222 p.; 24 cm.

Subject

• Heidegger, Martin
• Lonergan, Bernard J. F
• Experience
• Ontology
• Religion > Philosophy

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-216) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Ch. 1. The Love of Wisdom and the Consolations of Fallibility -- Traditional Wisdom and its Post-Modern Unmasking -- The Flight to Intuition -- The Throe as Arche -- Ch. 2. Wonder as Hinge -- Wonder as Rupture -- The Re-presentative Picture and the Vocative Image -- Being as the Toward-Which of Wonder -- Intimations of the Sacred -- Ch. 3. On the Way between Heidegger and Lonergan -- The Emergence of the World as World -- The Transcendental Turn to World-Making -- Deconstruction and Ontological Conversion -- Judgment and the Call of Being -- Ch. 4. Worlds -- Worlds as Hierophanies -- Centripetal Pull and Centrifugal Radiance -- The Tragic Quest for an Undeconstructible World -- Worlds as Games and the Demise of the Sacred -- The Return of the Repressed -- Ch. 5. Amphibolies of Love and Death -- Instinct and the Desire to Control -- Eros as Celebration -- Ironies of Death and Dying -- Ch. 6. The Experience of Horror and the Deconstruction of the Self -- The Horror of Deconstruction and the Dream of Totality -- Intimations of Nothingness -- Anguish and the Acknowledgment of One's Nothingness -- Ch. 7. Temporality as Rupture -- Death as Throe -- The Toward-Which of Temporality -- Time's Other -- Ch. 8. In the Throe of the Absolute Other -- The Objectivist Framework of the Traditional Argument -- Wonder as the Original Conversion -- Nothingness and its Difference from Absence -- Radical Conversion -- Awe as the Toward-Which of Wonder and Horror -- The Opening to Otherness.

ISBN

• 0791409538 (alk. paper)
• 0791409546 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^91012723^

OCLC

• 23356619
• SCSB-10185517

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library