Religion from Tolstoy to Camus

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Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1787207587
Total Pages : 924 pages
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Book Synopsis Religion from Tolstoy to Camus by : Dr. Walter Kaufmann

Download or read book Religion from Tolstoy to Camus written by Dr. Walter Kaufmann and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2017-07-31 with total page 924 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1961, this volume brings together basic writings and religious truths and morals from a wide range of sources. Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Plus II, Leo XIII, Nietzsche, James, Royce, Wilde, Freud, Niemöller, Barth, Maritain, Tillich, Schweitzer, Buber, Camus, and others, all have sought the religious truth about man, and have in the last three quarters of our century made great contributions to religious thought, critical often of the accepted and fashionable religion of their day, but greatly concerned to purify religion as they understood it. Dr. Waller Kaufman, of Princeton University, who has already written extensively on philosophy and religion, supplies an editorial and critical note for each of his subject, thus providing valuable continuity and evaluation. Such a book as this deserves a place in all libraries, public and private, so that it will be possible to quote these men from knowledge, rather than hearsay many times removed from the original. “The point is not to win friends for religion, or enemies, but to provoke greater thoughtfulness. Here are texts that deserve to be pondered and discussed. Some of them I have criticized in other volumes; in such cases, the references are given. But in the present book nothing is included merely to be disparaged, nor is anything offered only to be praised. The hope is that those who read this book will gain a deeper understanding of religion.”—Walter Kaufmann, Preface

Religion from Tolstoy to Camus

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351493744
Total Pages : 451 pages
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Book Synopsis Religion from Tolstoy to Camus by : Walter Kaufmann

Download or read book Religion from Tolstoy to Camus written by Walter Kaufmann and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-28 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walter Kaufmann devoted his life to exploring the religious implications of literary and philosophical texts. Deeply skeptical about the human and moral benets of modern secularism, he also criticized the quest for certainty pursued through dogma. Kaufmann saw a risk of loss of authenticity in what he described as unjustied retreats into the past. This is a compilation of signicant texts on religious thought that he selected and introduced.

My Religion

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Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
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Total Pages : 300 pages
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Book Synopsis My Religion by : graf Leo Tolstoy

Download or read book My Religion written by graf Leo Tolstoy and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 1885 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To one not familiar with the Russian language the accessible data relative to the external life of Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoi, the author of this book, are, to say the least, not voluminous. His name does not appear in that heterogeneous record of celebrities known as The Men of the Time, nor is it to be found in M. Vapereau's comprehensive Dictionnaire des Contemporains. And yet Count Leo Tolstoi is acknowledged by competent critics to be a man of extraordinary genius, who, certainly in one instance, has produced a masterpiece of literature which will continue to rank with the great artistic productions of this age. Perhaps it is enough for us to know that he was born on his father's estate in the Russian province of Tula, in the year 1828; that he received a good home education and studied the oriental languages at the University of Kasan; that he was for a time in the army, which he entered at the age of twenty-three as an officer of artillery, serving later on the staff of Prince Gortschakof; and that subsequently he alternated between St. Petersburg and Moscow, leading the existence of super-refined barbarism and excessive luxury, characteristic of the Russian aristocracy. He saw life in country and city, in camp and court.

Tolstoy and the Religious Culture of His Time

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Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739140760
Total Pages : 451 pages
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Book Synopsis Tolstoy and the Religious Culture of His Time by : Inessa Medzhibovskaya

Download or read book Tolstoy and the Religious Culture of His Time written by Inessa Medzhibovskaya and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2009-07-15 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book-length study on the subject in any language, Tolstoy and the Religious Culture of His Time treats Tolstoy's experience as a massive philosophical and religious project rather than a crisis-laden tragedy. Inessa Medzhibovskaya explains the evolution of Tolstoy's religious outlook based on his ongoing dialogue with the tradition of conversion in Europe and Russia, as well as on the demands of his own heart, mind, and spirit. The author contextualizes Tolstoy's conversion, comparing his pattern of religious conversion with that of other notable religious converts-Saint Paul, Saint Augustine, Luther, Pascal, Rousseau-as well with that of Tolstoy's countrymen-Pushkin, Gogol, Chaadaev, Stankevich, Belinsky, Herzen, and Dostoevsky. Stressing the importance of the religious culture of his time for Tolstoy, this study investigates the nineteenth century debates that inspired and repelled Tolstoy as he weighed arguments for or against faith in his dialogues with the culture of his time, covering widely differing fields and disciplines of experimental knowledge. The author considers German Romantic philosophy, the natural sciences, pragmatist religious solutions, theories of social progress and evolution, and the historical school of Christianity. Medzhibovskaya stresses the fact that influential intellectual currents were as important to Tolstoy as believers and nonbelievers were from and beyond his immediate environment. The author argues that, in this sense, Tolstoy's conversion emerges as deeply intertextual, and this surprising discovery should not diminish our trust in Tolstoy's sincerity during his religious evolution, which occurred both spontaneously as well as deliberately. The polyphony of discreet spiritual moments that Tolstoy created by fusing in his narratives of conversion religious and artistic realms is arguably his greatest contribution to spiritual autobiography.

Existentialism, Religion, and Death

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Publisher : Plume
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Total Pages : 282 pages
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Download or read book Existentialism, Religion, and Death written by Walter Kaufmann and published by Plume. This book was released on 1976 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four brilliant essays examine Kierkegaard, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky and Buber. Each is seen in a new perspective (the appreciation of Tolstoy, for example, is eye-opening). One chapter contrasts Nietzsche with the leading existentialists, and another explores the reception of existentialism in the United States. Throughout, the author's thrust is critical and constructive and never merely expository. [Back cover].

Tolstoy: A Guide for the Perplexed

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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1441101136
Total Pages : 187 pages
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Book Synopsis Tolstoy: A Guide for the Perplexed by : Jeff Love

Download or read book Tolstoy: A Guide for the Perplexed written by Jeff Love and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2008-09-25 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Count Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy (1828-1910) is one of the most important writers in the Western tradition. His two great novels, War and Peace and Anna Karenina, cover an enormous range of basic human experiences with a precision and probing spirit that, in the words of one critic, are simply "unmatched by any other writer." This guide offers students a clear introduction to Tolstoy's literary works from his major novels to the shorter novels and texts, including Hadji Murat and The Death of Ivan Ilyich. The guide also covers major themes including sex, death, authority and evil and offers an overview of Tolstoy's religious and philosophical thought. A final chapter assesses his lasting influence in the spheres of literature and culture, religion and philosophy and on major figures including Joyce, Ghandi, Wittgenstein and Heidegger.

Religion in World History

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134379307
Total Pages : 193 pages
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Book Synopsis Religion in World History by : John C. Super

Download or read book Religion in World History written by John C. Super and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-08-21 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the value of religion for interpreting the human experience in the past and present, this authoritative book is one of the few to examine religion's role in geo-political affairs.

Democracy

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Publisher : CRVP
ISBN 13 : 9781565181953
Total Pages : 348 pages
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Book Synopsis Democracy by : George F. McLean

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W. K. Clifford and "The Ethics of Belief"

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Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443802638
Total Pages : 200 pages
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Book Synopsis W. K. Clifford and "The Ethics of Belief" by : Timothy Madigan

Download or read book W. K. Clifford and "The Ethics of Belief" written by Timothy Madigan and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2008-12-18 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: W. K. Clifford (1845-1879) was a noted mathematician and popularizer of science in the Victorian era. Although he made major contributions in the field of geometry, he is perhaps best known for a short essay he wrote in 1876, entitled "The Ethics of Belief", in which he argued that "It is wrong always, everywhere, and for any one, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence." Delivered initially as an address to the august Metaphysical Society (whose members included such luminaries as Alfred Lord Tennyson, William Gladstone, T. H. Huxley, and assorted scientists, clerics and philosophers of differing metaphysical views, "The Ethics of Belief" became a rallying cry for freethinkers and a bone of contention for religious apologists. It continues to be discussed today as an exemplar of what is called 'evidentialism', a key point in current philosophy of religion debates over justification of knowledge claims. In this book, Timothy J. Madigan examines the continuing relevance of "The Ethics of Belief" to epistemological and ethical concerns. He places the essay within the historical context, especially the so-called 'Victorian Crisis of Faith' of which Clifford was a key player. Clifford's own life and interests are dealt with as well, along with the responses to his essay by his contemporaries, the most famous of which was William James's "The Will to Believe." Madigan provides an overview of modern-day critics of Cliffordian evidentialism, as well as examining thinkers who were positively influenced by him, including Bertrand Russell, who was perhaps Clifford's most influential successor as an advocate of intellectual honesty. The book ends with a defense of "The Ethics of Belief" from a virtue-theory approach, and argues that Clifford utilizes an "as-if" methodology to encourage intellectual inquiry and communal truth-seeking.' The Ethics of Belief' continues to provoke and stimulate controversy, which was perhaps Clifford's own fondest hope, although he had no right to believe it would do so.

Walter Kaufmann

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Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691211531
Total Pages : 760 pages
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Book Synopsis Walter Kaufmann by : Stanley Corngold

Download or read book Walter Kaufmann written by Stanley Corngold and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-03 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The first complete account of the ideas and writings of a major figure in twentieth-century intellectual life. Walter Kaufmann (1921-1980) was a charismatic philosopher, critic, translator, and poet who fled Nazi Germany at the age of eighteen, emigrating alone to the United States. He was astonishingly prolific until his untimely death at age fifty-nine, writing some dozen major books, all marked by breathtaking erudition and a provocative essayistic style. He single-handedly rehabilitated Nietzsche's reputation after World War II and was enormously influential in introducing postwar American readers to existentialism. Until now, no book has examined his intellectual legacy. Stanley Corngold provides the first in-depth study of Kaufmann's thought, covering all his major works. He shows how Kaufmann speaks to many issues that concern us today, such as the good of philosophy, the effects of religion, the persistence of tragedy, and the crisis of the humanities in an age of technology. Few scholars in modern times can match Kaufmann's range of interests, from philosophy and literature to intellectual history and comparative religion, from psychology and photography to art and architecture. Corngold provides a heartfelt portrait of a man who, to an extraordinary extent, transfigured his personal experience in the pages of his books. This original study, both appreciative and critical, is the definitive intellectual life of one of the twentieth century's most engaging yet neglected thinkers. It will introduce Kaufmann to a new generation of readers and serves as a fitting tribute to a scholar's incomparable libido sciendi, or lust for knowledge."--

Future of the Humanities

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351518267
Total Pages : 267 pages
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Book Synopsis Future of the Humanities by : James Hughes

Download or read book Future of the Humanities written by James Hughes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book locates the humanities in six general fields of study: religion and philosophy, art and music, and literature and history. It offers suggestions for interdisciplinary work around topics such as punishment, and death and dying.

Against Interpretation

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Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312280864
Total Pages : 340 pages
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Book Synopsis Against Interpretation by : Susan Sontag

Download or read book Against Interpretation written by Susan Sontag and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2001-08-25 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author relates her theories of literary criticism to the total aesthetic experience.

The Future of the Humanities

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Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1412836948
Total Pages : 268 pages
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Book Synopsis The Future of the Humanities by : Walter Kaufmann

Download or read book The Future of the Humanities written by Walter Kaufmann and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 1977 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Stefan Zweig Reconsidered

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Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110931400
Total Pages : 231 pages
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Book Synopsis Stefan Zweig Reconsidered by : Mark H. Gelber

Download or read book Stefan Zweig Reconsidered written by Mark H. Gelber and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-03-12 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is comprised of 14 contributions, which are revised and expanded versions of lectures held at an international conference on Stefan Zweig that took place in Israel in 2004. The essays focus on Zweig's biographical writings (for example Erasmus and Fouché), as well as on several aspects of his literary works that have been neglected since the revival of academic studies of his writings and career commenced some 25 years ago. These include: Zweig's conception of the daemonic, Zweig and Christianity, the discourse of love in his writings, Zweig as an Austrian eulogist, his understanding of theater, etc. Contributors from Austria, Germany, France, Belgium, Slovenia, and Israel bring refreshingly diverse perspectives and new concerns to this scholarly project. With contributions from Vera Apfelthaler, Matjaz Birk, Denis Charbit, Sarah Fraiman-Morris, Mark H. Gelber, Jacob Golomb, Bernhard Greiner, Gert Kerschbaumer, Hanni Mittelmann, Klaus Mueller, Michel Reffet, Ingrid Spoerk, Robert Wistrich.

The Gospel of Matthew and Its Readers

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Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253216001
Total Pages : 326 pages
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Book Synopsis The Gospel of Matthew and Its Readers by : Howard Clarke

Download or read book The Gospel of Matthew and Its Readers written by Howard Clarke and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2003-08-07 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gospel of Matthew and Its Readers is a biblical commentary with a difference. Howard Clarke first establishes contemporary scholarship's mainstream view of Matthew's Gospel, and then presents a sampling of the ways this text has been read, understood, and applied through two millennia. By referring forward to Matthew's readers (rather than back to the text's composers), the book exploits the tensions between what contemporary scholars understand to be the intent of the author of Matthew and the quite different, indeed often eccentric and bizarre ways this text has been understood, assimilated, and applied over the years. The commentary is a testament to the ambiguities and elasticity of the text and a cogent reminder that interpretations are not fixed, nor texts immutably relevant. And unlike other commentaries, this one gives space to those who have questioned, rejected, or even ridiculed Matthew's messages, since Bible-bashing, like Bible-thumping, is a historically significant part of the experience of reading the Bible.

Our Lives As Torah

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Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 9780787958534
Total Pages : 240 pages
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Book Synopsis Our Lives As Torah by : Carol Ochs

Download or read book Our Lives As Torah written by Carol Ochs and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2002-02-28 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this powerful book, Carol Ochs shows us how to develop apersonal theology by examining our life stories, learning torecognize God at work in them, and bringing them into conversationwith Torah. Using timeless biblical texts as lenses to see thepresent, she helps us understand who we are and who God is for usby exploring the tightly interwoven basic elements of ourlives--our love, suffering, work, bodies, prayer, community, andexperiences of death. Through the process of seeing our experiences in relation toBiblical stories, we begin to recognize our lives as part of theongoing story of the Jewish people--as Torah. This insight allowsus to see these experiences as meaningful, not accidental, andopens us to recognizing God's power in and through all that happensto us. Rather than a collection of random events, our lives arepart of the Jewish people's ongoing adventure. Armed with ourpersonally shaped theology, we can face this adventure of living inthe vanguard of history with awareness and confidence.

Exploring

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Publisher : Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations
ISBN 13 : 9781558964938
Total Pages : 118 pages
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Book Synopsis Exploring by : Richard S. Gilbert

Download or read book Exploring written by Richard S. Gilbert and published by Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations. This book was released on 2005 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: