{"title":"Books by John R. Betz","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9780470674925","title":"After Enlightenment","description":"After Enlightenment: Hamann as Post-Secular Visionary is a comprehensive introduction to the life and works of eighteenth-century German philosopher, J. G. Hamann, the founding father of what has come to be known as Radical Orthodoxy.  Provides a long-overdue, comprehensive introduction to Haman's fascinating life and controversial works, including his role as a friend and critic of Kant and some of the most renowned German intellectuals of the ageFeatures substantial new translations of the most important passages from across Hamann's writings, some of which have never been translated into EnglishExamines Hamann's highly original views on a range of topics, including faith, reason, revelation, Christianity, biblical exegesis, Socrates, theological aesthetics, language, sexuality, religion, politics, and the relationship between Judaism and ChristianityPresents Hamann as the 'founding father' of a distinctly post-modern, post-secular theology and, as such, as an alternative to the 'postmodern triumvirate' of Nietzsche, Heidegger, and DerridaConsiders Hamann's work as a touchtone of modern Jewish-Christian dialogue, in view of debates with his friend Moses MendelssohnExplores Hamann's role as the visionary founder of a 'metacritical' movement that radically calls into question the basic principles of modern secular reason, and thus reprises the debate between those defending Hamann's views and those labeling him the bete noir of the Enlightenment","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56290477113717,"sku":"9780470674925","price":34.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780470674925_0b29af55-8893-4cd9-8cff-b40c4a7dd15d.jpg?v=1786013535"},{"product_id":"hamann-studies","title":"Hamann Studies","description":"The eighteenth-century author and literary critic, Johann Georg Hamann (1730-88), otherwise known as the “Magus of the North,” is arguably the most inscrutable and enigmatic author in the history of German literature. Yet, ironically, the very one known for his darkness and obscurity was widely regarded as a source of light and wisdom. His “disciples” Herder and Jacobi revered him; Goethe regarded him as “the brightest mind of his time”; Hegel pored over his writings and admired his “penetrating genius”; Kierkegaard regarded him as “the greatest humourist in Christendom”; and, to any number of German Romantics, from Friedrich Schlegel to Jean Paul, he stood above his age, the so-called age of reason and enlightenment, as a genuinely enlightened prophet. But who really was this mysterious “wise man,” and what motivated his idiosyncratic campaign against the rationalism of his day – a campaign that made him seem to critics in his day and our own needlessly obscure and downright irrational? In short, what is it that makes Hamann so controversial – even to the point of eliciting a debate in the New York Review of Books? And what, if anything, does Hamann have to say to us today about reason, revelation, language, poetry, religion, and their connection? The studies collected here, which will be of interest to students of philosophy, literature, and theology, are intended to answer some of these questions. They also constitute a necessary supplement to the author’s previous work on Hamann, After Enlightenment: The Post-Secular Vision of J.G. 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During the latter half of the twentieth century, however, Przywara's star began to fade—so much so that in the Anglophone world he has tended to been known only by association with others: either as the mentor of Edith Stein or Hans Urs von Balthasar, or as the proximate target of Barth's famous rejection of the analogia entis (the \"analogy of being\"). Yet Karl Rahner considered him to be \"one of the greatest minds,\" from whom \"future generations still have critical things to learn\"; and to Balthasar he was an \"unforgettable guide,\" indeed, \"the greatest thinker\" he ever knew. Until recently, with little of Przywara's work available in English, such remarkable claims have been hard to understand. But since the publication of his magnum opus, Analogia Entis (translated by the author and David Bentley Hart), Przywara's star is rising again. English-language readers are finally beginning to see why so many extraordinary Catholic thinkers—including the last three popes—held him in such high regard. But one cannot fully understand Przywara's Analogia Entis without some knowledge of his early work and the Jesuit charism that informs it.  To that end, after a substantial introduction to Przywara's life and writings, this book focuses first on his largely unknown exegetical and devotional works; it then shows how he reads major figures of the Catholic tradition (specifically, Augustine, Aquinas, Cusanus, and Newman); finally, it shows how he deployed a Catholic understanding of the analogy of being in his engagements with Barth, Hegel, and the early directions of phenomenology represented by Husserl, Scheler, and the early Heidegger. In sum, this book lays a foundation for the future study of Przywara, who deserves to be remembered as one of the greatest Catholic philosophers and theologians of the twentieth century—one whose full significance to his time and perhaps our own has yet to be recognized.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57680057074037,"sku":"9780197922712","price":110.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}]}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-john-r-betz.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}