Binding: Paperback
Description: James Greenaway offers a philosophical guide to understanding affirming and valuing the significance of belonging across personal political and historical dimensions of existence. A sense of belonging is one of the most meaningful experiences of anyone's life. Inversely the discovery that one does not belong can be one of the most upsetting experiences. In A Philosophy of Belonging Greenaway treats the notion of belonging as an intrinsically philosophical one. After all belonging raises intense questions of personal self - understanding identity mortality and longing; it confronts interpersonal sociopolitical and historical problems; and it probes our relationship with both the knowable world and transcendent mystery. Experiences of alienation exclusion and despair become conspicuous only because we are already moved by a primordial desire to belong. Greenaway presents a hermeneutical framework that brings the intelligibility of belonging into focus and discusses the works of various representative thinkers in light of this hermeneutic. The study is divided into two main parts " Presence" and " Communion." In the first Greenaway considers the abiding presence of the cosmos as the context of personhood and the world followed by the presence of persons to themselves and others by way of consciousness and embodiment culminating in a discussion of the unrestricted horizon of meaning that love makes present in persons. In the second part belonging in community is explored as a crucial type of communion that is both politically and historically structured. Moreover communion has direction and a quality of sacredness that offers itself for consideration. Greenaway concludes with a discussion of the consequences of refusing presence and communion and what is involved in the repudiation of belonging.
Title: A Philosophy Of Belonging Persons Politics Cosmos
Author(s): Greenaway James
Publisher: University Of Notre Dame Press
Barcode: 9780268206024
Pages: 338 Pages
Publication Date: 8/15/2023
Series: The Beginning and the Beyond of Politics
Category: Political Science & Theory