Searching for the Divine in Contemporary Philosophy
Tensions Between the Immanent and the Transcendent
The Edwin Mellen Press, Lewiston (USA) – Queenston (Canada) – Lampeter (UK) 1999, ISBN 0-7734-7925-2
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface (Nicholas Lobkowicz)
I.
TWO CONSTITUTIVE MOVEMENTS OF THE POSTMODERN ERA
1. Release from the System Societal Links
2. The Breaking of Horizons of Modern Reason
TRANSCENDENCE IN EUROPEAN PHILOSOPHY
1. Plato – Transcendence as Genuine Being
2. Kant – Transcendence as a World of Liberty
3. Jaspers – Transcendence as the Origin of Existence
4. Lévinas – Transcendence or The Other One
THE DOMINATING FEATURE OF POSTMODERN SPIRITUALITY: SEARCH
II.
1. Transpersonality
Secularization of Religious Experience
A Topography of Transpersonal Experiences
The Highlighting of Spiritual Meaning of Spontaneous Crises of Identity
2. Transculturality
Esoteric Assimilation
Interreligious Dialogue
1. Transuniversality
Divine Freedom
Dark Night
2. Transalterality
Human Freedom
Dialogue
3. Proexistence
III.
THE MAIN CROSSROADS OF POSTMODERN SPIRITUALITY
1. Two Modes of Self-formation of Postmodern Immanentism
Totalization
Negation
2. The Specific Features of Postmodern Search for Transcendence
Openness to Experiences
Need of Participation
THE PHILOSOPHY OF TRANSCENDENCE AND POSTMODERN SPIRITUALITY
Index of Names
Index of Subjects
