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Lonergan and the philosophy of historical existence, Thomas J. McPartland

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Bernard Lonergan's ambitious study of human knowledge, based on his theory of consciousness, is among the major achievements of twentieth-century philosophy. He challenges the principles of contemporary intellectual culture by finding norms and standards not in external perceptions or reified concepts, but in the dynamism of consciousness itself. Lonergan and the Philosophy of Historical Existence explores the implications of Lonergan's approach to the philosophy of history in a number of distinct but related contexts, covering a variety of intellectual disciplines. Each chapter can be read independently, but the series of chapters provides a coherent unfolding of Lonergan's case that the norms of inquiry endure as a standard of human thought and action amid continuous changes and fluctuations in politics, morals, religion, science, and scholarship. The book explains how Lonergan's idea of development follows from his theory of consciousness and how his treatment of human development inevitably focuses on historical development. The central theme of the book is that Lonergan's philosophy of history makes a pronounced distinction between historicity and historicism. McPartland relates Lonergan's work to existentialist themes and, in the last chapters, to the work of Eric Voegelin. The book addresses the existentialist themes of dread, suffering, guilt, shame, and resentiment - within overall themes of history, philosophy, and religion. McPartland argues that Lonergan's unique perspective on scientific method, epistemology, metaphysics, and critical theory can illuminate what seem to be the quite alien topics of reason as religious experience, the anxiety of existence, the existential roots of bias, and mythopoesis and mystery. Here there is a remarkable parallel to the philosophy of history of Eric Voegelin. The concluding chapters of the book show how the equivalence of the two philosophies offers a mutually enriching dialogue between Lonergan's critical realism and Voegelin's existential exegesis
Language
eng
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Publication
Extent
1 online resource (xi, 305 pages).
Contents
  • Historicism and Historicity: Two Perspectives on History
  • 5.
  • Reason and History
  • 6.
  • Cosmopolis: The Community of Open Existence
  • 7.
  • Historicity and the Event of Philosophy
  • 8.
  • Dread and the Horizon of Existence
  • 9.
  • Machine generated contents note:
  • Noetic Science: Aristotle, Voegelin, and the Philosophy of Consciousness
  • 10.
  • Self-Appropriation in Lonergan and Voegelin
  • 11.
  • Equivalence of Meaning: Lonergan's Cognitional Theory and Voegelin's History of Symbols
  • 1.
  • Lonergan's Philosophy of Consciousness
  • 2.
  • From Classicism to Emergent Probability: Lonergan's Notion of Development
  • 3.
  • Dialectic of History
  • 4.
Isbn
9780826213457
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Lonergan and the philosophy of historical existence
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Lonergan and the philosophy of historical existence
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Thomas J. McPartland
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Language
eng
Summary
Bernard Lonergan's ambitious study of human knowledge, based on his theory of consciousness, is among the major achievements of twentieth-century philosophy. He challenges the principles of contemporary intellectual culture by finding norms and standards not in external perceptions or reified concepts, but in the dynamism of consciousness itself. Lonergan and the Philosophy of Historical Existence explores the implications of Lonergan's approach to the philosophy of history in a number of distinct but related contexts, covering a variety of intellectual disciplines. Each chapter can be read independently, but the series of chapters provides a coherent unfolding of Lonergan's case that the norms of inquiry endure as a standard of human thought and action amid continuous changes and fluctuations in politics, morals, religion, science, and scholarship. The book explains how Lonergan's idea of development follows from his theory of consciousness and how his treatment of human development inevitably focuses on historical development. The central theme of the book is that Lonergan's philosophy of history makes a pronounced distinction between historicity and historicism. McPartland relates Lonergan's work to existentialist themes and, in the last chapters, to the work of Eric Voegelin. The book addresses the existentialist themes of dread, suffering, guilt, shame, and resentiment - within overall themes of history, philosophy, and religion. McPartland argues that Lonergan's unique perspective on scientific method, epistemology, metaphysics, and critical theory can illuminate what seem to be the quite alien topics of reason as religious experience, the anxiety of existence, the existential roots of bias, and mythopoesis and mystery. Here there is a remarkable parallel to the philosophy of history of Eric Voegelin. The concluding chapters of the book show how the equivalence of the two philosophies offers a mutually enriching dialogue between Lonergan's critical realism and Voegelin's existential exegesis
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1945-
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McPartland, Thomas J.
Dewey number
191
Index
index present
LC call number
B995.L654
LC item number
M37 2001eb
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
  • dictionaries
  • bibliography
Series statement
Eric Voegelin Institute series in political philosophy
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  • Lonergan, Bernard J. F
  • Voegelin, Eric
  • Consciousness
  • History
  • Lonergan, Bernard J. F
  • Voegelin, Eric
  • PHILOSOPHY
  • Movements / Existentialism
  • PHILOSOPHY
  • Consciousness
  • History
  • Philosophy
  • Philosophy & Religion
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Lonergan and the philosophy of historical existence, Thomas J. McPartland
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unknown
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-287) and index
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online resource
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multicolored
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Contents
  • Historicism and Historicity: Two Perspectives on History
  • 5.
  • Reason and History
  • 6.
  • Cosmopolis: The Community of Open Existence
  • 7.
  • Historicity and the Event of Philosophy
  • 8.
  • Dread and the Horizon of Existence
  • 9.
  • Machine generated contents note:
  • Noetic Science: Aristotle, Voegelin, and the Philosophy of Consciousness
  • 10.
  • Self-Appropriation in Lonergan and Voegelin
  • 11.
  • Equivalence of Meaning: Lonergan's Cognitional Theory and Voegelin's History of Symbols
  • 1.
  • Lonergan's Philosophy of Consciousness
  • 2.
  • From Classicism to Emergent Probability: Lonergan's Notion of Development
  • 3.
  • Dialectic of History
  • 4.
Control code
56416113
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Extent
1 online resource (xi, 305 pages).
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unknown
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online
Isbn
9780826213457
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computer
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rdamedia
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(OCoLC)56416113
Label
Lonergan and the philosophy of historical existence, Thomas J. McPartland
Publication
Antecedent source
unknown
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-287) and index
Carrier category
online resource
Carrier category code
  • cr
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Color
multicolored
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • Historicism and Historicity: Two Perspectives on History
  • 5.
  • Reason and History
  • 6.
  • Cosmopolis: The Community of Open Existence
  • 7.
  • Historicity and the Event of Philosophy
  • 8.
  • Dread and the Horizon of Existence
  • 9.
  • Machine generated contents note:
  • Noetic Science: Aristotle, Voegelin, and the Philosophy of Consciousness
  • 10.
  • Self-Appropriation in Lonergan and Voegelin
  • 11.
  • Equivalence of Meaning: Lonergan's Cognitional Theory and Voegelin's History of Symbols
  • 1.
  • Lonergan's Philosophy of Consciousness
  • 2.
  • From Classicism to Emergent Probability: Lonergan's Notion of Development
  • 3.
  • Dialectic of History
  • 4.
Control code
56416113
Dimensions
unknown
Extent
1 online resource (xi, 305 pages).
File format
unknown
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online
Isbn
9780826213457
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unknown
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computer
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rdamedia
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  • c
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not applicable
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remote
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(OCoLC)56416113

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