Kenneth Mackendrick
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 335219 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Kenneth Mackendrick |
| NOMBRES | Kenneth |
| APELLIDO | Mackendrick |
| FIRMA | MACKENDRICK K |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Manitoba |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 11 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 9 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 11 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1999 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2018 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Does past religion have a past? Habermas, religion, and the sacred complex
This article argues for a rethinking of Jürgen Habermas's understanding of religion. Taking into consideration some of Habermas's recent writings on the topic, it is argued that his conception of religion is untenable. Recent critical studies on the discourse of religion and its historical context have rendered the classic conception of religion suspect. Instead of describing a unique sphere of life, religion can and should be redescribed as some…
The Future of Religious History in Habermas’s Critical Theory of Religion
In Discovering Religious History in the Modern Age Hans Kippenberg argues that the history of religions is the creative work-product of a cultural and political identity crisis, one in which the comparative history of religions became a means for some European scholars to uncouple from an increasingly halfhearted attachment to Christianity and re-experience their own history in a dynamic new form. A future for religion was thus found in the creat…
The Public Nature of Critical Discourses on “Religion”
Review Essay of William E. Arnal and Russell T. McCutcheon’s The Sacred is the Profane: The Political Nature of ‘Religion’ (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013)
Postmetaphysical Thinking and the Philosophy of Religion
This essay focuses on Chapter Six, “Are Religions Out of Touch with Reality?” of Kevin Schilbrack’s Philosophy and the Study of Religion: A Manifesto . Two objections are discussed: the rehabilitation of metaphysics and the concept “unmediated experience.” Throughout, Jürgen Habermas’s postmetaphysical communicative theoretic is drawn upon to field reasonable alternatives to Schilbrack’s proposals
We Have an Imaginary Friend in Jesus
This article investigates the plausibility of using studies of imaginative play to illuminate and explain the contemporary prevalence and popularity of religious imaginal dialogue. Emphasis is given to conceptual considerations arising from the application of recent findings in the neuroscience of social cognition and cognitive theories of childhood development to the study of religion
Discourse, Desire, and Fantasy in Jurgen Habermas' Critical Theory
This book argues that Jürgen Habermas’ critical theory can be productively developed by incorporating a wider understanding of fantasy and imagination as part of its conception of communicative rationality and communicative pathologies. Given that meaning is generated both linguistically and performatively, MacKendrick argues that desire and fantasy must be taken into consideration as constitutive aspects of intersubjective relations. His aim is …
Christianity and Ethnicity in Canada (review)
Intersubjectivity and the 'Revival of Death
The aim of the essay is to provide an introductory analysis of the potentially negative effects of religious or spiritual narratives invoked or encouraged when death is near. Drawing on the work of Jürgen Habermas and Jessica Benjamin, I argue that the encouragement of the unchecked expression of feelings coupled with the view that all individuals are sacred and have a sacred story promotes a potentially inhibited and inhibiting thanatological di…
A Messiah for Marxism
The Moral Imaginary of Discourse Ethics
The central claim of this essay is that Habermas' pro gram of discourse ethics fails to establish the necessary immanent connection between the universality of discourse ethics and the quasi-transcendentalism, which is supposed to provide its ground. Habermas' attempt to avoid the spectre of subjectivism leads him to develop an understanding of universalism that hinges on a critical error, the confusion of subjectivity with ethical sub stance. Us…
The aporetics of a tennis-playing brontosaurus, or a critical theory of religion
En 1997-98, cette revue a presente un debat entre McCutcheon et Arnal concernant leur interet a la contribution du postmodernisme a l'etude de la religion. L'A. du present article considere que leur desaccord sur ce sujet est purement theorique et leur adresse ici une replique. Il y etudie plus a fond les questions qu'ils ont soulevees afin de determiner pourquoi tous deux arrivent au bout du compte au meme endroit, a savoir que l'utilisation du …
The Future of Religious History in Habermas’s Critical Theory of Religion
In Discovering Religious History in the Modern Age Hans Kippenberg argues that the history of religions is the creative work-product of a cultural and political identity crisis, one in which the comparative history of religions became a means for some European scholars to uncouple from an increasingly halfhearted attachment to Christianity and re-experience their own history in a dynamic new form. A future for religion was thus found in the creat…
Does past religion have a past? Habermas, religion, and the sacred complex
This article argues for a rethinking of Jürgen Habermas's understanding of religion. Taking into consideration some of Habermas's recent writings on the topic, it is argued that his conception of religion is untenable. Recent critical studies on the discourse of religion and its historical context have rendered the classic conception of religion suspect. Instead of describing a unique sphere of life, religion can and should be redescribed as some…
Intersubjectivity and the 'Revival of Death
The aim of the essay is to provide an introductory analysis of the potentially negative effects of religious or spiritual narratives invoked or encouraged when death is near. Drawing on the work of Jürgen Habermas and Jessica Benjamin, I argue that the encouragement of the unchecked expression of feelings coupled with the view that all individuals are sacred and have a sacred story promotes a potentially inhibited and inhibiting thanatological di…
The aporetics of a tennis-playing brontosaurus, or a critical theory of religion
En 1997-98, cette revue a presente un debat entre McCutcheon et Arnal concernant leur interet a la contribution du postmodernisme a l'etude de la religion. L'A. du present article considere que leur desaccord sur ce sujet est purement theorique et leur adresse ici une replique. Il y etudie plus a fond les questions qu'ils ont soulevees afin de determiner pourquoi tous deux arrivent au bout du compte au meme endroit, a savoir que l'utilisation du …
The aporetics of a tennis-playing brontosaurus, or a critical theory of religion
En 1997-98, cette revue a presente un debat entre McCutcheon et Arnal concernant leur interet a la contribution du postmodernisme a l'etude de la religion. L'A. du present article considere que leur desaccord sur ce sujet est purement theorique et leur adresse ici une replique. Il y etudie plus a fond les questions qu'ils ont soulevees afin de determiner pourquoi tous deux arrivent au bout du compte au meme endroit, a savoir que l'utilisation du …
The Moral Imaginary of Discourse Ethics
The central claim of this essay is that Habermas' pro gram of discourse ethics fails to establish the necessary immanent connection between the universality of discourse ethics and the quasi-transcendentalism, which is supposed to provide its ground. Habermas' attempt to avoid the spectre of subjectivism leads him to develop an understanding of universalism that hinges on a critical error, the confusion of subjectivity with ethical sub stance. Us…
A Messiah for Marxism
Intersubjectivity and the 'Revival of Death
The aim of the essay is to provide an introductory analysis of the potentially negative effects of religious or spiritual narratives invoked or encouraged when death is near. Drawing on the work of Jürgen Habermas and Jessica Benjamin, I argue that the encouragement of the unchecked expression of feelings coupled with the view that all individuals are sacred and have a sacred story promotes a potentially inhibited and inhibiting thanatological di…
Discourse, Desire, and Fantasy in Jurgen Habermas' Critical Theory
This book argues that Jürgen Habermas’ critical theory can be productively developed by incorporating a wider understanding of fantasy and imagination as part of its conception of communicative rationality and communicative pathologies. Given that meaning is generated both linguistically and performatively, MacKendrick argues that desire and fantasy must be taken into consideration as constitutive aspects of intersubjective relations. His aim is …
Christianity and Ethnicity in Canada (review)
We Have an Imaginary Friend in Jesus
This article investigates the plausibility of using studies of imaginative play to illuminate and explain the contemporary prevalence and popularity of religious imaginal dialogue. Emphasis is given to conceptual considerations arising from the application of recent findings in the neuroscience of social cognition and cognitive theories of childhood development to the study of religion
The Future of Religious History in Habermas’s Critical Theory of Religion
In Discovering Religious History in the Modern Age Hans Kippenberg argues that the history of religions is the creative work-product of a cultural and political identity crisis, one in which the comparative history of religions became a means for some European scholars to uncouple from an increasingly halfhearted attachment to Christianity and re-experience their own history in a dynamic new form. A future for religion was thus found in the creat…
The Public Nature of Critical Discourses on “Religion”
Review Essay of William E. Arnal and Russell T. McCutcheon’s The Sacred is the Profane: The Political Nature of ‘Religion’ (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013)
Postmetaphysical Thinking and the Philosophy of Religion
This essay focuses on Chapter Six, “Are Religions Out of Touch with Reality?” of Kevin Schilbrack’s Philosophy and the Study of Religion: A Manifesto . Two objections are discussed: the rehabilitation of metaphysics and the concept “unmediated experience.” Throughout, Jürgen Habermas’s postmetaphysical communicative theoretic is drawn upon to field reasonable alternatives to Schilbrack’s proposals
Does past religion have a past? Habermas, religion, and the sacred complex
This article argues for a rethinking of Jürgen Habermas's understanding of religion. Taking into consideration some of Habermas's recent writings on the topic, it is argued that his conception of religion is untenable. Recent critical studies on the discourse of religion and its historical context have rendered the classic conception of religion suspect. Instead of describing a unique sphere of life, religion can and should be redescribed as some…
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