The primacy of persons and the language of culture : essays
Building upon the scholarship of Michael Polanyi, William Poteat has dedicated himself to offering an alternative model to the Cartesian dichotomy of mind and matter that has dominated Western thought for centuries._ These essays, collected by James Nickell and James Stines, cover a wide range of subjects, from Poteat's analysis of the epistemological crisis brought on by the Cartesian program to his first attempts at formulating an alternative to the mind-body dichotomy. These essays relentlessly diagnose the present situation of Western thought by making explicit the philosophical presuppositions to which it is committed._ They include theological affirmations, reflections on epistemology, conceptual analyses, as well as dialogues with other writers in the field of cultural criticism and linguistic theory such as George Steiner, Noam Chomsky, and Walker Percy._ Most significant is Poteat's bold affirmation of the primacy of persons and his analysis and critique of our cultural misconstructions of human awareness. The Primacy of Persons and the Language of Culture provides an excellent introduction to the scholarship of William Poteat._ It should be of particular interest to scholars of philosophy and theology, as well as others who share Poteat's deep concern for the state of human culture
1 online resource (viii, 343 pages)
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Introduction
Part I. Programmatic Essays. 1. Persons and Places: Paradigms in Communication
2. Myths, Stories, History, Eschatology, and Action: Some Polanyian Meditations
3. Further Polanyian Meditations
4. The Incarnate Word and the Language of Culture
Part II. Personal Language and the Language of Belief. 1. Faith and Existence
2. On the Meaning of Grace
3. The Absence of God
4. Foreknowledge and Foreordination: A Critique of Models of Knowledge
4. Birth, Suicide, and the Doctrine of Creation: An Explanation of Analogies
5. God and the "Private-I"
6. "I Will Die": An Analysis
7. What Is a Poem About?
Part III. The Ambivalent Language of Culture. 1. The Open Society and Its Ambivalent Friends
2. Psychoanalytic Theory and Theistic Belief: Some Comments
3. Notes on Ricoeur on Freud
4. Reflections on Walker Percy's Theory of Language
5. George Steiner: The Extra-Territorial Critic
6. Moustakas within His Ambience
Part VI. Freedom, Faith, and the House of Intellect. 1. Anxiety, Courage, and Truth
2. Tragedy and Freedom
3. Notes toward the Definition of Freedom
4. Christianity and the Intellectual
5. Can and Should a College Be Christian? Defining Some Central Issues
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