{"product_id":"transcending-subjects-isbn-9781119163084","title":"Transcending Subjects","description":"\u003ci\u003eTranscending Subjects: Augustine, Hegel and Theology \u003c\/i\u003eengages the seminal figures of Hegel and Augustine around the theme of subjectivity, with consideration toward the theology and politics of freedom. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements ix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCitations and Abbreviations x\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I Hegel—Self-Transcending Immanence 15\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1 Hegel in Contemporary Political Philosophy 17\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 17\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEvolutionary Social Practices: Autonomy through Sociality 19\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRevolutionary Radical Act: Autonomy against Sociality 27\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion 38\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2 Consciousness and Freedom: Logic and Phenomenology of Spirit 43\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 43\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNothing Is Infinite: Science of Logic 45\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eInfinite Self]Consciousness: Phenomenology of Spirit 62\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBeyond Nothing and the Unfathomable 89\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion 93\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3 Society and Freedom: Philosophy of Right 103\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 103\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Subject and Substance of Politics 104\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Institutions of Ethical Life: Family, Civil Society, and State 115\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Limits of Self-Transcending Immanence 118\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion 124\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II Augustine—Self-Immanenting Transcendence 129\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e4 Augustine in Contemporary Political Theology 131\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 131\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOntological Peace: Transcendence against Liberalism 133\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOrdered Love: Transcendence for Liberalism 144\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion 151\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e5 Conversion and Freedom: Confessions 155\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 155\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConversion of the Will: Conflict and Intervention 160\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConversion of the Will: Community and Intervention 169\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConversion of Creation: Christ as Intervention 178\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion 185\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e6 Society and Freedom: City of God 192\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 192\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEarthly City and the Lust for Domination 198\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJustice and Res Publica 205\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJustice, Love, and Sacrifice 208\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLove and the World 215\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion 222\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion 230\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 239\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eGeoffrey Holsclaw\u003c\/b\u003e is an Affiliate Professor of Theology and Director of Master of Arts in Theology and Mission at Northern Seminary. He is the co-author of \u003ci\u003eProdigal Christianity\u003c\/i\u003e (2013), as well as the author of articles in theology and political philosophy, examining major figures such as Hobbes, Badiou and Žižek, and integrating Eucharistic and Trinitarian themes to political practice.  \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTranscending Subjects: Augustine, Hegel and Theology \u003c\/i\u003econnects the seminal figures of Hegel and Augustine around the theme of subjectivity, with consideration toward the theology and politics of freedom.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAfter the demise of Kantian liberalism and secularism, scholars are returning to Hegel as the first great post-secular critic of Enlightenment liberalism. As a result of this return, and Hegel’s influence in philosophy and theology, those who seek to understand and engage modern theology and politics must be familiar with Hegel. However, Holsclaw argues that such a return to Hegel should only come \u003ci\u003eafter\u003c\/i\u003e a deeper return to Augustine’s theological and philosophical perspective. \u003c\/p\u003e Without polemicizing the difference between transcendence and immanence, Holsclaw takes the often daunting figures of Hegel and Augustine and clearly shows how they articulate two fundamental options from which theology and politics develop: the former oriented toward immanence and the latter toward transcendence.  In addition to providing a new interpretation of major works of Hegel and Augustine, Holsclaw engages recent interpretations of Hegel, by scholars such as Pippin and Žižek, and Augustine, by scholars such as Milbank and Gregory, with the goal of reorienting theology and the politics of freedom around a subjectivity that is transcended. \u003cp\u003eThis book is a worthy effort to rethink a robust sense of divine transcendence, which helpfully highlights important philosophical, theological, ethical and political dimensions relevant to contemporary discussion. I particularly liked how it takes seriously a sense of divine transcendence that is not reducible to the forms of immanent transcendence currently more common, and that is also fully intimate with the immanent world, in a way more dualistic conceptions often failed to be in the past.  The book importantly challenges a negative view of Augustine and a positive predilection for a non-metaphysical version of Hegel among some contemporary thinkers. It is very well versed in the works of Hegel and Augustine, and informed by the relevant scholarship. It is a readable and engaging book which insightfully and deftly unfolds a significant dialogue between Augustine and Hegel, as well as between the author and their significant contemporary interpreters.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWilliam Desmond, Professor of Philosophy, Katholieke Universiteit, David Cook Chair in Philosophy, Villanova University\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47990405169381,"sku":"NP9781119163084","price":93.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781119163084.jpg?v=1761787695","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/transcending-subjects-isbn-9781119163084","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}