Religion and the Hermeneutics of Contemplation

by D.Z. Phillips

Book Overview

D.Z. Phillips argues that intellectuals need not see their task as being for or against religion, but as one of understanding it. What stands in the way of this task is certain methodological assumptions about what inquiry into religion must be. Beginning with Bernard Williams on Greek gods, Phillips goes on to examine these assumptions in the work of Hume, Feurerbach, Marx, Frazer, Tylor, Marett, Freud, Durkheim, L vy-Bruhl, Berger and Winch. The...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521008468
• ISBN13: 9780521008464
• Release Date: September 2001
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 346 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"