The Givenness of Desire

Concrete Subjectivity and the Natural Desire to See God

Randall S. Rosenberg (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

286 Seiten

2018
University of Toronto Press (Verlag)
978-1-4875-2367-1 (ISBN)

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In The Givenness of Desire, Randall S. Rosenberg examines the human desire for God through the lens of Lonergan’s "concrete subjectivity." Rosenberg engages and integrates two major scholarly developments: the tension between Neo-Thomists and scholars of Henri de Lubac over our natural desire to see God and the theological appropriation of the mimetic theory of René Girard, with an emphasis on the saints as models of desire. With Lonergan as an integrating thread, the author engages a variety of thinkers, including Hans Urs von Balthasar, Jean-Luc Marion, René Girard, James Alison, Lawrence Feingold, and John Milbank, among others. The theme of concrete subjectivity helps to resist the tendency of equating too easily the natural desire for being with the natural desire for God without at the same time acknowledging the widespread distortion of desire found in the consumer culture that infects contemporary life. The Givenness of Desire investigates our paradoxical desire for God that is rooted in both the natural and supernatural.

Randall S. Rosenberg is an assistant professor in the Department of Theological Studies at Saint Louis University.

Acknowledgements

INTRODUCTION

PART ONE: DE LUBAC, RESSOURCEMENT, AND NEO-THOMISM

CHAPTER 1: De Lubac’s Lament: Loss of the Supernatural
CHAPTER 2: Ressourcement and Neo-Thomism: A Narrative under Scrutiny, A Dialogue Renewed

PART TWO: A LONERGAN RETRIEVAL: PURE NATURE TO CONCRETE SUBJECT

CHAPTER 3: The Erotic Roots of Intellectual Desire
CHAPTER 4: Concretely-Operating Nature: Lonergan on the Natural Desire to See God
CHAPTER 5: Being-in-Love and the Desire for the Supernatural: Erotic-Agapic Subjectivity

PART III: MIMETIC DESIRE, MODELS OF HOLINESS, AND THE LOVE OF DEVIATED TRANSCENDENCE

CHAPTER 6: Incarnate Meaning and Mimetic Desire: Saints and the Desire for God
CHAPTER 7: The Metaphysics of Holiness and the Longing for God in History: Thérèse of Lisieux and Etty Hillesum
CHAPTER 8: Distorted Desire and the Love of Deviated Transcendence

CONCLUSION

Erscheinungsdatum	29.01.2019
Reihe/Serie	Lonergan Studies
Verlagsort	Toronto
Sprache	englisch
Maße	153 x 229 mm
Gewicht	460 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	1-4875-2367-X / 148752367X
ISBN-13	978-1-4875-2367-1 / 9781487523671
Zustand	Neuware