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Transcendence and Hermeneutics

An Interpretation of the Philosophy of Karl Jaspers

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  • © 1979

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  1. Alan M. Olson
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Part of the book series: Studies in Philosophy and Religion (STPAR, volume 2)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XXIII
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  2. Transcending-Thinking and Its Modalities

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-9
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    2. Transcending in World-Orientation

      • Alan M. Olson
      Pages 10-17

    3. Transcending and Existenz

      • Alan M. Olson
      Pages 18-29

    4. Transcending in Speculative Metaphysics

      • Alan M. Olson
      Pages 30-41

  3. Transcending-Thinking and Philosophical Idealism

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 43-49
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    2. Transcending in Historical Consciousness

      • Alan M. Olson
      Pages 50-57

    3. Jaspers and Platonic Idealism

      • Alan M. Olson
      Pages 58-71

    4. Jaspers and Kant

      • Alan M. Olson
      Pages 72-90

    5. Unfolding the Enfolding: Jaspers and Mysticism

      • Alan M. Olson
      Pages 91-108

  4. Transcendence and Hermeneutics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 109-116
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    2. Transcending-Thinking as Hermeneutic Philosophizing

      • Alan M. Olson
      Pages 117-144

    3. The Successors and Critics of Karl Jaspers

      • Alan M. Olson
      Pages 145-182

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 183-198
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About this book

''The problem of Transcendence is the problem of our time. " I Needless to say, Transcendence was a particularly lively i~sue when Karl Heim wrote these words in the mid-1930's. Within the province of philosophi­ cal theology and philosophy of religion, however, it is always the prob­ lem, as Gordon Kaufman has recently reminded us. 2Por the question concerning the nature and the reality of Transcendence has not only to do with self-transcendence, but with the being of Transcendence-Itself, that is to say, with the nature and the reality of God as experienced and understood at any given time or place. Now there are those today who would claim that any further discus­ sion of the latter half of this proposition, namely,Transcendence-Itse1f or God, is worthless and quite beside the point. Such persons would claim that the particular logia represented by the theological sciences has collapsed by virtue of its object having disappeared. Indeed, when one surveys the contemporary scene in philosophy and theology, there is a good deal of evidence that this is the case':"" theology of late having be­ come something of a "spectacle," to use Pritz Buri's term. One of the reasons for this, we here contend, is that the richness and the diversity of the meaning of Transcendence has been lost. And even though we do not here intend to resolve the issue, neither do we assume that such an enqui­ ry is either impossible or irrelevant.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Transcendence and Hermeneutics

  • Book Subtitle: An Interpretation of the Philosophy of Karl Jaspers

  • Authors: Alan M. Olson

  • Series Title: Studies in Philosophy and Religion

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-9270-2

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1979

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-247-2092-7Published: 30 September 1979

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-9270-2Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXIII, 198

  • Topics: Philosophy of Religion

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