Andrew B Irvine
Biographic Data
| ID | 459851 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew B Irvine |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew B |
| FAMILY NAME | Irvine |
| SIGNATURE | IRVINE A B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Maryville College |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4051-6100 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Transforming One's Self
Transforming One's Self is a solid contribution to explicating the thought of William James as an “ethical theorist through and through” (viii). In four chapters, the author offers a synthetic account of James's philosophy of experience as an original ethical vision. For James, the field of experience empowers selfhood as a focal, ethical project; selfhood is the project that focalizes the field of experience as ethical potency. Ethical here refe…
Philosophy, Theory or Way of Life? Controversies in Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
Decolonizing American Philosophy
In Ethics of Liberation, Enrique Dussel claims that American pragmatist philosophy “could not discover the phenomenon of Eurocentrism, because it interpreted the United States as the full Western fulfillment of Europe. . . . It did not take as its departure point the periphery, the dominated, the excluded, the poor, women, the races discriminated against.”1Decolonizing American Philosophy partially confirms, partially refutes, Dussel's charge. No…
Where Are the Wild Things? A Cultural-Psychological Critique of a Political Theology of Climate Change Denial
One aim of this essay is to understand why white evangelical Christians, more than any other religious adherents in the United States, are deeply invested in denying the emergency of anthropogenic climate change and in obstructing action to address anthropogenic climate change. Michael S. Hogue, in his recent book, American Immanence, blames a religious imaginary he names the “redeemer symbolic.” This symbolic complex inspires the devotion of the…
Liberation Theology as a Postcolonial Critique of Theological Reason
The liberation theology of Gustavo Gutiérrez has offered an effective postcolonial critique of the conditions of life of the Latin American poor, and of a theological method that legitimated them. The present article studies early writings of Gutiérrez that show his critique taking form. In the first instance, Gutiérrez argued, theological truth is not something beheld in philosophical theoria, but is rather a performance of agonistic practice. O…
The Remains of Being
Postcolonial Philosophy of Religion
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Postcolonial Philosophy of Religion
The Remains of Being
Liberation Theology as a Postcolonial Critique of Theological Reason
The liberation theology of Gustavo Gutiérrez has offered an effective postcolonial critique of the conditions of life of the Latin American poor, and of a theological method that legitimated them. The present article studies early writings of Gutiérrez that show his critique taking form. In the first instance, Gutiérrez argued, theological truth is not something beheld in philosophical theoria, but is rather a performance of agonistic practice. O…
Where Are the Wild Things? A Cultural-Psychological Critique of a Political Theology of Climate Change Denial
One aim of this essay is to understand why white evangelical Christians, more than any other religious adherents in the United States, are deeply invested in denying the emergency of anthropogenic climate change and in obstructing action to address anthropogenic climate change. Michael S. Hogue, in his recent book, American Immanence, blames a religious imaginary he names the “redeemer symbolic.” This symbolic complex inspires the devotion of the…
Decolonizing American Philosophy
In Ethics of Liberation, Enrique Dussel claims that American pragmatist philosophy “could not discover the phenomenon of Eurocentrism, because it interpreted the United States as the full Western fulfillment of Europe. . . . It did not take as its departure point the periphery, the dominated, the excluded, the poor, women, the races discriminated against.”1Decolonizing American Philosophy partially confirms, partially refutes, Dussel's charge. No…
Philosophy, Theory or Way of Life? Controversies in Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
Transforming One's Self
Transforming One's Self is a solid contribution to explicating the thought of William James as an “ethical theorist through and through” (viii). In four chapters, the author offers a synthetic account of James's philosophy of experience as an original ethical vision. For James, the field of experience empowers selfhood as a focal, ethical project; selfhood is the project that focalizes the field of experience as ethical potency. Ethical here refe…
Epistemology (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Political theology (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Pragmatism in Philosophy and Education (2 works) · Religion, Ecology, and Ethics (2 works)