Experience and the Absolute: Disputed Questions on the Humanity of Man

by Jean-Yves Lacoste

Book Overview

Does the philosophy of Martin Heidegger represent the emergence of a secular anthropology that requires religious thought to redefine the religious dimension in human existence? In this critical response, Lacoste confronts the ultimate definition of human nature, the humanity of the human. He explores that definition through an analysis of the "absolute" as a phenomenological datum.

Lacoste establishes a conception of human nature that opens...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823223760
• ISBN13: 9780823223763
• Release Date: October 2004
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"