RT Article
T1 Contemplation: Beyond and Behind
JF Sophia
VO 48
IS 4
SP 435
OP 435
A1 Hart, Kevin 1954-
LA English
PB Springer Netherlands
YR 2009
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1785590626
AB This essay seeks to explore contemplation as it features in Christian theology and philosophy, both ancient and modern. Contemplation, in ancient philosophy, is transformed in Christian theology; nonetheless, it has the structure of what Jean Wahl calls ‘transascendance’, a rising to the heights. Although contemplation remains as a theme in modern Christian theology, it drops out in modern philosophy: that is, post-Renaissance philosophy. And yet it returns, both in analytic and continental philosophy, in the twentieth century. It returns, however, in the mode of ‘transdescendance’: by way of conditions of possibility, and fundamental orientations.
K1 Heidegger
K1 Wittgenstein
K1 Transcendence
K1 Contemplation
K1 Theoria
DO 10.1007/s11841-009-0131-6