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"This book introduces students and other interested readers to the philosophy of religion: a vibrant and growing field of academic philosophy. Readers will be guided through an exploration of classic and contemporary arguments for and against theism. In addition to this crucial, but standard fare, this book looks to probe deeper into the nature and value (or dis-value) of religion itself. Philosophy of religion is becoming more diverse, both in terms of the religious traditions it examines, and the issues that it addresses. This book reflects that fact, engaging with religious traditions from Quakerism to Jainism. Questions and topics covered include: What is religion? What philosophical problems arise for the practices of prayer, worship, and meditation? How might multiple religions co-exist in peace? If there's a God, would it be the sort of thing that language could describe? When and how might it be rational to wager that a particular religion is true? With a glossary of key terms and suggestions for further reading, Philosophy of Religion: The Basics is an ideal starting point for anyone seeking a lively and accessible foray into the study of religion or philosophy"--

This volume brings together a group of 14 essays on five problems of freedom and nine philosophers, contributing to the history of philosophy, and offers a concise survey of the question of freedom. It approaches this question in several ways, exploring the problems of freedom, the freedom of philosophers, and the paradoxes of freedom. The topics of these essays were chosen because of a personal, but also universal, interest: the problem of freedom makes the human condition paradoxical. We always find ourselves faced with the same structure of this paradox: a freedom which cannot be freed from its relation to necessity. Freedom is, therefore, not really free. The paradox of freedom is, thus, that of the human condition: human freedom is as paradoxical as the human condition is incomprehensible.

"In 1905, Freud published his Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality, the book that established the core psychoanalytic thesis that sexuality is central to formations of the unconscious. Inverting Freud's title, Eric Santner here takes up the sexuality of theory-or, more exactly, its sex-appeal, the modes of enjoyment to be found in the kinds of critical thinking that, since the 1960s, have laid claim to that ancient word, "theory." Untying Things Together is both an intellectual history of major theoretical paradigms and a call for their reexamination and renewal in light of the "postcritical turn" away from them. Santner organizes this intellectual history autobiographically as the story of his own encounters and involvements with key theorists and theoretical projects. He thereby shows that to reduce these theoretical projects to so many exercises in a "hermeneutics of suspicion" (a move associated with certain "post-critique" authors) is to miss what is most vital, most alive, indeed life-changing about them. It is to miss the "gay science" they elaborate. Santner's explorations yield new ways of accounting for the "sublime object" of theory, the libidinal charge it carries for those susceptible to its charms"--

Cover -- Book Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Translator's Preface -- Preface -- Chapter 1 The Logical Image of Right -- Chapter 2 Consequences of the Logical Image of Right -- (a) Defining acts and defining relations -- (b) Defining truth and defining utility -- Chapter 3 The Political Hermeneutic of Right -- (a) Right: a pre-political achievement -- (b) The alienation of politics and the citizen -- (c) The 'homoeopathic' paradox of right -- (d) The religious foundations of the utilitarianism of right -- Chapter 4 A Preliminary Theory of the Transcendence of the Logic of Right -- (a) 'Law' (Dikaion) and 'law' (nomos): the ancient Greek version -- (b) 'Law' (Dikaion) and 'law' (nomos):the Roman and Early Christian version -- Chapter 5 Cultural Resistance to the Individualism of Right -- (a) The 'culture' of ecclesial Orthodoxy today -- (b) Orthodoxy, the West, and Islam. -- (c) Orthodoxy and nationalism -- (d) Orthodoxy and political liberalism -- Chapter 6 The Inhumanity or the Humanising of Right? -- (a) The dilemma of political anthropology -- (b) Oughtness and isness -- (c) The state and the community -- (d) The consumer and the citizen -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back Cover.