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Recovering the Personal
The Philosophical Anthropology of William H. Poteat
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2016
Summary
Modernity has radically challenged the assumptions that guide our ordinary lives as persons, in ways we are not normally aware. We live our concrete lives taking for granted that personal decisions, desires, relationships, actions, aspirations, values, and knowledge are central to our existence. But in modernity, we think of these matters as private, idiosyncratic, and subjective, even irrational. This modern conception of ourselves and the associated way of reflection known as modern critical thinking came to dominate our thinking is culminates in the dualistic philosophy of René Descartes. This dualism has spawned a reductionist view of persons and tainted “the personal” with connotations of bias, partiality, and privacy, leaving us with the presumption that if we seek to be objective and intellectually respectable, we must expunge the personal.
William H. Poteat’s work in philosophical anthropology has confronted this concern head on. He undertakes a radical critique of the various forms of mind-body dualism and materialist monism that have dominated Western intellectual concepts of the person. In a unique style that Poteat calls post-critical, he uncovers the staggering incoherencies of these dualisms and shows how they have resulted in a loss of the personal in the modern age. He also formulates a way out of this modern cultural insanity. This constructive dimension of his thought is centered on his signature concept of the mindbody, the pre-reflective ground of personal existence. The twelve contributors in this collection explore outgrowths and implications of Poteat’s thought.
Recovering the Personal will be of interest to a broad range of intellectual readers with interests in philosophy, psychology, theology, and the humanities.
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Copyright year
2016
ISBN-Print
978-1-4985-4094-0
ISBN-Online
978-1-4985-4095-7
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
219
Product type
Edited Book
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Contents No access
Acknowledgments No access
Chapter One: Refinding the Personal No access
Chapter Two: Why Is the Personal so Important? No access
Chapter Three: Being Post-Critical No access
Chapter Four: Critical Recollection No access
Chapter Five: The Genealogy of Poteat’s Philosophical Anthropology No access
Chapter Six: The Primacy of Persons No access
Chapter Seven: Dethroning Epistemology No access
Chapter Eight: Personhood and the Problematic of Christianity No access
Chapter Nine: Incarnational Theology No access
Chapter Ten: Toward a Post-Critical Theology No access
Chapter Eleven: Post-Critical Aesthetics No access
Chapter Twelve: Paul Cézanne and the Numinous Power of the Real No access
