Tag Archives: Philosophy Department
Ecological hospitality
Hosting Earth: Facing the Climate Emergency (Routledge, 2024) is a timely volume in the emerging literature of environmental philosophy. Co-edited by Boston College Charles Seelig Professor of Philosophy Richard Kearney and BC alumni Peter Klapes and Urwa Hameed, the book … Continue reading
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Philosophical hermeneutics
The Hermeneutics of Person, Belongingness and Diverse Philosophies (an anthology) is a collection of essays written by Boston College Assistant Professor of the Practice of Philosophy Stanley Uche Anozie. Philosophical hermeneutics is central to Anozie’s research and writings. These essays … Continue reading
Polemical ethics
Martin Heidegger held Plato responsible for inaugurating the slow slide of the West into nihilism and the apocalyptic crisis of modernity. In his book, Towards a Polemical Ethics: Between Heidegger and Plato (Roman & Littlefield), Boston College Professor of Philosophy … Continue reading
Richard Kearney: a novel and scholarship
Irish philosopher Richard Kearney, who holds the Charles B. Seelig Chair of Philosophy at Boston College, has published a novel titled Salvage (Arrowsmith Press, 2023) that centers on the timeless tension between progress and tradition. A description of the novel … Continue reading
A recipe for repairing brokenness
Years ago, when pastor Mack McCarter returned to his hometown of Shreveport, Louisiana, he found a city racially divided and mired in violence. He started a deceptively simple but powerful faith-based community rebuilding program that has since changed his hometown, … Continue reading
A Study of Soul in Plotinus
Plotinus is often accused of writing haphazardly, with little concern for the integral unity of a treatise. In the new book From the Alien to the Alone: A Study of Soul in Plotinus (Catholic University of America Press, 2022), BC … Continue reading
Pope Benedict and German Enlightenment
The lifelong engagement of Josef Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI) with the German Enlightenment and its contemporary manifestations and heirs is the subject of a new book written by Fr. Maurice Ashley Agbaw-Ebai, who recently earned a doctorate in philosophy from … Continue reading
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Tagged Europe, Germany, Philosophy Department, Pope Benedict
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Reading Anselm
New Readings of Anselm of Canterbury’s Intellectual Methods (Brill, 2022) presents essays that offer new readings of Anselm’s speculative and spiritual writings on topics including his relationship to Augustine, proofs for God’s existence, faith and reason, human freedom and the … Continue reading
In honor of Fr. Bernauer
A special issue of the journal Philosophy & Social Criticism has been published in honor of Kraft Family Professor Emeritus James Bernauer, S.J., former director of BC’s Center for Christian-Jewish Learning. Fr. Bernauer retired in 2020 after a 40-year career … Continue reading
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Faculty authors honored
Faculty in the Philosophy and Theology departments have been honored for their work by organizations recognizing outstanding Catholic books, magazines, newspapers, and other communications vehicles. The Catholic Media Association (formerly Catholic Press Association) … Continue reading
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Tagged Catholic, Philosophy Department, Theology Department
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