Fragments: The Existential Situation of Our Time: Selected Essays, Volume 1 PDF
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FRAGMENTS Tracy_9780226567297 i 11/20/2019 09:51:54 AM Tracy_9780226567297 ii 11/20/2019 09:51:54 AM FRAGMENTS The Existential Situation of Our Time Selected eSSayS ¤ Volume 1 DAVID TRACY The University of Chicago Press Chicago and London Tracy_9780226567297 iii 11/20/2019 09:51:54 AM The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 60637 The University of Chicago Press, Ltd., London © 2020 by The University of Chicago All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission, except in the case of brief quotations in critical articles and reviews. For more information, contact the University of Chicago Press, 1427 East 60th Street, Chicago, IL 60637. Published 2020 Printed in the United States of America 29 28 27 26 25 24 23 22 21 20 1 2 3 4 5 ISBN-1 3: 978- 0- 226-5 6729-7 (cloth) ISBN- 13: 978- 0- 226- 58450- 8 (e-b ook) doI: https://doi.org/10.7208/chicago/9780226584508.001.0001 The University of Chicago Press gratefully acknowledges the generous support of the Divinity School at the University of Chicago toward the publication of this book. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Tracy, David, author. Title: Fragments : the existential situation of our time : selected essays, volume 1 / David Tracy. Other titles: Existential situation of our time Description: Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2020. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: lccN 2019024423 | ISBN 9780226567297 (cloth) | ISBN 9780226584508 (ebook) Subjects: lcSH: Theology. | Hermeneutics—Religious aspects. | Public theology. Classification: lcc BR85 .t69 2020 | ddc 230/.2—dc23 lc record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019024423 ♾ This paper meets the requirements of aNSI/NISo Z39.48- 1992 (Permanence of Paper). Tracy_9780226567297 iv 11/20/2019 09:51:54 AM To Arthur Rossell Tracy brother and friend ¤ Tracy_9780226567297 v 11/20/2019 09:51:54 AM Tracy_9780226567297 vi 11/20/2019 09:51:54 AM We will never all think alike and we shall always see truth in fragments and from different angles of vision. Gandhi The fragment is that part of the totality of the work that opposes totality. Theodor Adorno, Aesthetic Theory Tracy_9780226567297 vii 11/20/2019 09:51:54 AM Tracy_9780226567297 viii 11/20/2019 09:51:54 AM CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 1 Part 1: The Existential Situation of Our Time 1 Fragments: The Spiritual Situation of Our Time 19 2 The Ultimate Invisible: The Infinite 35 3 Responses to Horror and Suffering: The Responses of Tragedy and Some Religions 57 4 Christianity and Suffering 83 5 Metaphysics, Theology, and Mysticism 93 Part 2: Hermeneutics 6 Hermeneutical Reflections in the New Paradigm of Theology 131 7 Western Hermeneutics and Interreligious Dialogue 145 8 The Dialogical Turn of Contemporary Thought 187 9 Paul Ricoeur: Hermeneutics and the Dialectic of Religious Forms 211 Tracy_9780226567297 ix 11/20/2019 09:51:54 AM Part 3: Publicness and Public Theology 10 Theology, Critical Social Theory, and the Public Realm 241 11 Religion in the Public Realm: Three Forms of Publicness 269 12 Practical Theology: Its Mystical- Prophetic Character 289 13 Argument, Dialogue, and the Soul in Plato 307 Part 4: Religion, Theology, and Dialogue 14 Metaphor and Religion: The Test Case of Christian Texts 327 15 Mystics, Prophets, Rhetorics: Religion and Psychoanalysis 347 16 Contemplation, Speculation, Action: Reflections on Orthodox Theology 365 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 385 INDEX OF NAMES 389 INDEX OF SUBJECTS 405 Tracy_9780226567297 x 11/20/2019 09:51:54 AM
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