This collection of essays note and extend the achievement of a preeminent American Continental philosopher.
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Devoted to the most important American Continental philosopher of his generation and one of the discipline's founding fathers, and featuring some of the field's most distinguished luminaries, this anthology constitutes a critical document in Continental philosophy, reflecting its recent history, its present state, and its debt to Calvin Schrag. Taking up themes central to Schrag's own philosophical concerns, these essays refer throughout to his salient "interventions" in the dialogue of late twentieth-century thought characterized as "postmodernity." In doing so, all contributors address, implicitly or directly, the question of philosophy's role and responsibility, or "task."
The volume begins with an overview of this task and of Schrag's contributions to it, written from the perspective of a resolute defender of the phenomenological tradition that Schrag's work has extended and reconfigured. The following essays are organized around the four conceptual figures that are widely considered Schrag's most significant and original philosophical achievements: transversal rationality, the self after modernity, the fourth cultural value sphere, and communicative praxis. Following and expanding on the implications of these themes, the authors focus on topics ranging from Cartesian rationality to Foucauldian rational relativism; from transcendence in relation to the self to the Schragean self's connections with discourse, action, and community; from religion's disruptive presence in contemporary philosophy to recent developments in the philosophy of language. Taken together, these essays go beyond an appreciation of Calvin Schrag's contribution to Continental philosophy to substantially elaborate and extend that contribution
About the Author
Martin Beck Matuštík is an associate professor of Philosophy and director of the English and Philosophy PhD Program at Purdue University. He is the author of Spectors of Liberation: Great Refusals in the New World Order (SUNY Press, 1998) and Jürgen Habermas: A Philosophical-Political Profile (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2001). William L. McBride is a professor of Philosophy at Purdue University. He co-edited with Calvin O. Schrag Phenomenology in a Pluralistic Context (SUNY Press, 1983) and is the author of Philosophical Reflections on the Changes in Eastern Europe (Rowman & Littlefield, 1999).
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A wonderful and inspiring festschrift,
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This review is from: Calvin O. Schrag and the Task of Philosophy After Postmodernity (Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy) (Paperback)
Matustik and McBride's edited _Calvin O. Schrag and the Task of Philosophy after Postmodernity_ is not only a fitting festschrift to one of America's leading voices in contemporary Continental European philosophy, but it is also an impressive collection of critical and philosophical essays in its own right. The introductory chapter by Gary Madison, "Bringing Philosophy into the Twenty-First Century," contextualizes the essays that follow. Many of the essays are homages and salutes to Schrag, originally delivered at a one-day conference honoring the retirement of the renowned philosopher. All but two of the essays in this collection were presented to Schrag at this celebration, and his humbling, insightful and witty responses to the contributors conclude this volume. Of special interest are the essays by Edward S. Casey, Merold Westphal, Hwa Yol Jung, John D. Caputo, and Lenore Langsdorf, as they elaborate on and continue Schragean themes and notions. This volume serves as a wonderful backdrop to Schrag's latest offering, _God as Otherwise than Being: Toward a Semantics of the Gift_ (2002, Northwestern Univ. Press). Here Schrag makes a fitting return to his Kierkegaardian origins, and continues the discourse on the ethics of the "gift" shared by Marcel Mauss, Jacques Derrida, Jean-Luc Marion, and others.
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