Sean Mcgrath
Biographic Data
| ID | 4291950 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sean Mcgrath |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sean |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcgrath |
| SIGNATURE | MCGRATH S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Memorial University of Newfoundland |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7281-3516 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Nature as Symbol of God
The following essay is an effort to apply the concept of theophany, common to all monotheisms, but drawing especially on the philosophy of Nicholas of Cusa, to the environmental philosophical problem of understanding what nature is such that we should treat it reverentially
Beyond Hermeneutics
Bradley contends that the semiology of Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914), the founder of pragmatism, is a standing challenge as much to Gadamerian hermeneutics as to Saussure’s structuralism and its deconstructionist progeny. For Peirce physical matter itself is one specific mode of the activity of semiosis or sign interpretation. The paper outlines the central point and purpose of Peirce’s general metaphysics and describe the basic features of …
The Philosophical Foundations of the Late Schelling
A defence of the rationality and rigour of the late Schelling’s visionary philosophy of religion A major new effort to organise and evaluate Schelling’s arguments for a Philosophy of Revelation and to demonstrate their importance for contemporary debates Finds in largely unexamined texts of the late Schelling new resources for critiquing rationalism, reductive naturalism, and posthumanism Will appeal to the many scholars in various fields working…
Collected Essays in Speculative Philosophy
Collects the essays of James Bradley (1947–2012) for the first time, showcasing his speculative cosmology of the Trinity Reinvigorates the debate about the role and significance of speculative philosophy in the Anglo-American tradition Reveals the depth and breadth of Bradley’s philosophical thought Presented in chronological order, following the movement of Bradley’s thought Includes a preface by Peter Harris and a contextualising introduction b…
Can the Earth be Sacred Once Again? Christianity and Climate Change
The following paper takes Pope Francis’ Encyclical on Climate Change as an opportunity to re-open the debate, begun in 1967 by Lynn White Jr., on the theological origins of the environmental crisis. I note that the Pope’s critique of consumerist modernity is strong, but his lack of a genealogical account of modernity remains a weakness of the text. I argue, with White, that the technological revolution which has caused climate change would not ha…
Thinking Nature
Makes a compelling case for a new Anthropocenic humanism where humans have a special responsibility for nature Thinking Nature tracks the history of the concept of nature from the Hebrew Bible, through Renaissance philosophy and science, to Dark Ecology. Critical of the post-humanist trend in contemporary eco-criticism, Sean McGrath makes a compelling case for a new anthropocenic humanism – a humanism that is not at the expense of nature, and a n…
The Ecstatic Realism of the Late Schelling
Reading Heidegger, Reading Scotus
The young Heidegger finds in his early reading of Duns Scotus and Thomas of Erfurt suggestions from medieval speculative grammar for the solution to the category problem: the limited nature of the Aristotelian ten categories, and how such categories, in their application to only one domain of being, leave out the fore-theoretical sense of life. The elaboration of the fore-theoretical categories of being-in-the-world will occupy Heidegger in the w…
Is the Late Schelling Still Doing Nature-Philosophy
I argue against current deflationary trends in Schelling scholarship that positive philosophy is not negative philosophy by other means but exceeds it in content and form. While nature-philosophy gives to positive philosophy the means to think the positive, the latter is not “natural” but revealed. I situate the turn to the positive in Schelling’s 1809 Freedom essay, which introduces the possibility of a real distinction between nature and God fo…
The Dark Ground of Spirit
Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling is widely regarded as one of the most difficult and influential of German philosophers. In this book, S. J. McGrath not only makes Schelling's ideas accessible to a general audience, he uncovers the romantic philosopher's seminal role as the creator of a concept which shaped and defined late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century psychology: the concept of the unconscious. McGrath shows how the unconscious orig…
The question concerning metaphysics
Schelling is the least understood of the major German philosophers. His work has a clearly demonstrable influence on the late nineteenth-century psychologies of the unconscious that were a decisive influence on both Freud and Jung. Where the mature Freudian metapsychology is a systematic effort to de-Romanticize the unconscious, purging it of the characteristic Schellingian themes of transcendence, teleology, and theology, Jung goes in the opposi…
Sexuation in Jung and Lacan
In the following article I first situate Lacan and Jung in the broader history of the unconscious: Western esotericism and Romanticism. This contextualization is necessary for the subsequent construction of a Jungian reading of Lacan's theory of sexuation. I will underscore one commonality between Jung and Lacan, and make evident the specific challenge Lacanian theory presents to Jung's notion of coniunctio . In conclusion I will suggest that Jun…
Is the Late Schelling Still Doing Nature-Philosophy
I argue against current deflationary trends in Schelling scholarship that positive philosophy is not negative philosophy by other means but exceeds it in content and form. While nature-philosophy gives to positive philosophy the means to think the positive, the latter is not “natural” but revealed. I situate the turn to the positive in Schelling’s 1809 Freedom essay, which introduces the possibility of a real distinction between nature and God fo…
Sexuation in Jung and Lacan
In the following article I first situate Lacan and Jung in the broader history of the unconscious: Western esotericism and Romanticism. This contextualization is necessary for the subsequent construction of a Jungian reading of Lacan's theory of sexuation. I will underscore one commonality between Jung and Lacan, and make evident the specific challenge Lacanian theory presents to Jung's notion of coniunctio . In conclusion I will suggest that Jun…
The Dark Ground of Spirit
Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling is widely regarded as one of the most difficult and influential of German philosophers. In this book, S. J. McGrath not only makes Schelling's ideas accessible to a general audience, he uncovers the romantic philosopher's seminal role as the creator of a concept which shaped and defined late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century psychology: the concept of the unconscious. McGrath shows how the unconscious orig…
The question concerning metaphysics
Schelling is the least understood of the major German philosophers. His work has a clearly demonstrable influence on the late nineteenth-century psychologies of the unconscious that were a decisive influence on both Freud and Jung. Where the mature Freudian metapsychology is a systematic effort to de-Romanticize the unconscious, purging it of the characteristic Schellingian themes of transcendence, teleology, and theology, Jung goes in the opposi…
Is the Late Schelling Still Doing Nature-Philosophy
I argue against current deflationary trends in Schelling scholarship that positive philosophy is not negative philosophy by other means but exceeds it in content and form. While nature-philosophy gives to positive philosophy the means to think the positive, the latter is not “natural” but revealed. I situate the turn to the positive in Schelling’s 1809 Freedom essay, which introduces the possibility of a real distinction between nature and God fo…
The Ecstatic Realism of the Late Schelling
Reading Heidegger, Reading Scotus
The young Heidegger finds in his early reading of Duns Scotus and Thomas of Erfurt suggestions from medieval speculative grammar for the solution to the category problem: the limited nature of the Aristotelian ten categories, and how such categories, in their application to only one domain of being, leave out the fore-theoretical sense of life. The elaboration of the fore-theoretical categories of being-in-the-world will occupy Heidegger in the w…
Thinking Nature
Makes a compelling case for a new Anthropocenic humanism where humans have a special responsibility for nature Thinking Nature tracks the history of the concept of nature from the Hebrew Bible, through Renaissance philosophy and science, to Dark Ecology. Critical of the post-humanist trend in contemporary eco-criticism, Sean McGrath makes a compelling case for a new anthropocenic humanism – a humanism that is not at the expense of nature, and a n…
Can the Earth be Sacred Once Again? Christianity and Climate Change
The following paper takes Pope Francis’ Encyclical on Climate Change as an opportunity to re-open the debate, begun in 1967 by Lynn White Jr., on the theological origins of the environmental crisis. I note that the Pope’s critique of consumerist modernity is strong, but his lack of a genealogical account of modernity remains a weakness of the text. I argue, with White, that the technological revolution which has caused climate change would not ha…
Beyond Hermeneutics
Bradley contends that the semiology of Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914), the founder of pragmatism, is a standing challenge as much to Gadamerian hermeneutics as to Saussure’s structuralism and its deconstructionist progeny. For Peirce physical matter itself is one specific mode of the activity of semiosis or sign interpretation. The paper outlines the central point and purpose of Peirce’s general metaphysics and describe the basic features of …
The Philosophical Foundations of the Late Schelling
A defence of the rationality and rigour of the late Schelling’s visionary philosophy of religion A major new effort to organise and evaluate Schelling’s arguments for a Philosophy of Revelation and to demonstrate their importance for contemporary debates Finds in largely unexamined texts of the late Schelling new resources for critiquing rationalism, reductive naturalism, and posthumanism Will appeal to the many scholars in various fields working…
Collected Essays in Speculative Philosophy
Collects the essays of James Bradley (1947–2012) for the first time, showcasing his speculative cosmology of the Trinity Reinvigorates the debate about the role and significance of speculative philosophy in the Anglo-American tradition Reveals the depth and breadth of Bradley’s philosophical thought Presented in chronological order, following the movement of Bradley’s thought Includes a preface by Peter Harris and a contextualising introduction b…
Nature as Symbol of God
The following essay is an effort to apply the concept of theophany, common to all monotheisms, but drawing especially on the philosophy of Nicholas of Cusa, to the environmental philosophical problem of understanding what nature is such that we should treat it reverentially
Epistemology (10 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Metaphysics (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Theology (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, and Hegel (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism (3 works)