Murphy The Politics of Spirit

Phenomenology, Genealogy, Religion
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-1-4384-3289-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch, 405 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series, Issues in the Study of Religion

A critical look at the development of the phenomenological approach to the study of religion, revealing its evaluative and metaphysical concepts.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Murphy, Tim

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

PART I. Introduction, Background, Methodological Issues

1. The Phenomenology of Religion: Introduction and Background

Traditional Historiography of the Phenomenology of Religion: Hegel versus Husserl
Geist and the Geisteswissenschaften in Nineteenth-Century Continental Thought
“Explanation versus Interpretation”: Previous Critiques of the Phenomenology of Religion
The Pedigree of Classical Phenomenology of Religion
Terminology: “Phenomenology” and “History of Religions”
Authorial Stance and Thesis

2. Discourse, Text, Philosophemes: Elements of a Postcolonial-Genealogical Reading

Overview: Method and Rezeptionsgeschitche
Language (Langue) and Discourse
Postcolonial Discourse Theory
The Politics of Geist

PART II. Readings in the Discourse of the Phenomenology of Religion

3. Geist, History, Religion: Hegel and the Structure of Phenomenology and Religionswissenschaft

The Nature of Historical Change: Hegel’s Articulation of the Concept of Entwicklung (“Development”)
Geist and the Unity and Stages of History
“In” History: Reason, Morality, and the State
Geist and the Stages of Religious Self-Consciousness
Spirit as Life and as Community

4. Religion in Essence and Development: C. P. Tiele, Early Religionswissenschaft, and the Phenomenology of Religion

The Concept of “Entwicklung” (Development)
Ontology, or the Essence of Religion
History of Religion/s

5. “Experience, Expression, Understanding”: Wilhelm Dilthey on Geist and the Methodology of the Geisteswissenschaft

Experience (Erlebnis)
Expression (Ausdruck)
Understanding (Verstehen)
Dilthey and Hegel/Geist und Natur

6. Geist, Nature, and History: The Phenomenology of Rudolf Otto

Geist versus Natur: The Structure of the Religious A Priori
“The Defi cient Rationalization and Moralization of Experience”:“Primitive” Religion
The (Feminine) Passivity of the East versus the (Masculine) Vitality of the Gothic West
The Stage of Monotheism: Judaism and Islam versus
Christianity
Conclusion

7. Phenomenology as Empathetic Taxonomy: The Phenomenological Approaches of Chantepie de la Saussaye and W. B. Kristensen Chantepie: Religionswissenschaft as a Tripart Science

Phenomenology as Taxonomic Operation
Ethnographic Part
History of Religions
W. Brede Kristensen
The Representation of Religion
The Tripart Science: Philosophy, History, and Phenomenology in Religionswissenschaft
Phenomenological Limit
Classifi cation of Religions

8. Experience, Expression, Empathy: Gerardus van der Leeuw’s Phenomenological Program

Subject/Object; Experience/Expression; Inward/Outward
Structure, Meaning, and Phenomenological Reconstruction
Religion in History
Limits of Religionsphänomenologie

9. Overcoming the Foreign through Experience, Expression, Understanding: The Method/ology of Joachim Wach

Experience
Expression
Understanding
History of Religions, Society, and Culture

10. The Total Hermeneutics of the New Humanism: Mircea Eliade’s Agenda for Religionswissenschaft

The Grounding of the Sacred as an “Irreducible Element”
Expression and Experience
Structure, History, Intelligibility
Religionswissenschaft, a Total Hermeneutic and the New Humanism

PART III. Poststructuralist, Postcolonialist Analyses

11. “The Center Does Not Hold”: Decentering the “Centrisms” of the Discourse of the Phenomenology of Religion

Logocentrism
Eurocentrism
Christocentrism
Ethnocentrism
Phenomenology of Religion and/as Racism

12. The “End of Man” and the Phenomenology of Religion

“Man,” Subject, Consciousness, Geist
The Sickness unto Death of “Man”
The Sicknesses of “Man”
Incipit: Post-“Man”
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Tim Murphy is an Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Alabama. He is the author of Nietzsche, Metaphor, Religion, also published by SUNY Press, and Representing Religion: Essays in History, Theory, and Crisis.