With the World at Heart: Studies in the Secular Today

by Thomas A. Carlson

Book Overview

What is the role of love in opening and sustaining the temporal worlds we inhabit? One of the leading scholars in philosophy and the history of religious thought, Thomas A. Carlson here traces this question through Christian theology, twentieth-century phenomenological and deconstructive philosophy, and nineteenth-century individualism. Revising Augustine's insight that when we love a place, we dwell there in the heart, Carlson also pointedly resists...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022661753X
• ISBN13: 9780226617534
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"