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Feuerbach and the Interpretation of Religion
Ludwig Feuerbach is traditionally regarded as a significant but transitional figure in the development of nineteenth-century German thought. Readings of Feuerbach’s The Essence of …
Edward Said and the Religious Effects of Culture
This book provides a distinctive account of Edward Said’s critique of modern culture by highlighting the religion-secularism distinction on which it is predicated. This distinction …
Religion and Faction in Hume's Moral Philosophy
This book explores Hume's concern with the destructiveness of religious factions and his efforts to develop, in his moral philosophy, a solution to factional conflict. Sympathy and …
Kierkegaard and the Treachery of Love
This is a major study of Kierkegaard and love. Amy Laura Hall explores Kierkegaard’s description of love’s treachery, difficulty, and hope, reading his Works of Love as a text that …
William James and the Metaphysics of Experience
William James is frequently considered one of America's most important philosophers, as well as a foundational thinker for the study of religion. Despite his reputation as the …
Freud and the Legacy of Moses
Freud’s last book, Moses and Monotheism, was published in 1939 during one of the darkest periods in Jewish history. This difficult book has frequently been vilified and dismissed …
John Locke and the Ethics of Belief
Nicholas Wolterstorff discusses the ethics of belief which Locke developed in Book IV of his Essay Concerning Human Understanding, where Locke finally argued his overarching aim: …
Contingency and Fortune in Aquinas's Ethics
In this study John Bowlin argues that Aquinas's moral theology receives much of its character and content from an assumption about our common lot: the good we desire is difficult …
Love Disconsoled
Few concepts are more central to ethics than love, but none is more subject to false consolation. This 1999 book explores several theological, philosophical and literary accounts …