Product Description In this study of an important aspect of political theory, Christos Yannaras argues that the concept of the right of the individual (since Hegel's Philosophy of Right) summarizes the philosophical and cultural identity of the paradigm of modernity. The philosophical assumptions underlying the concept of right have not hitherto been subjected to a searching critique. This book maintains that the starting-point of the concept of right is a phenomenalistic naturalism, which presupposes an abstract concept of the human subject as a fundamentally undifferentiated natural individual. The question is explored of how the priority accorded to this concept of right is related to the contemporary crisis of the modern politico-social paradigm. Against the modern concept of right with its illusion of objectivity, Yannaras sketches out the basic lines of a political theory that prioritizes new social needs that reflect the relational character of the human person. About the Author Christos Yannaras, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the Panteion University of Athens, is, in the words of Basilio Petra, 'one of the most important Orthodox thinkers of the second half of the twentieth century and the beginning of the present millennium'. He is the subject of two studies already published by James Clarke & Co: Sotiris Mitralexis (ed.), Polis, Ontology, Ecclesial Event: Engaging with Christos Yannaras' Thought (2018) and Basilio Petra, Christos Yannaras: The Apophatic Horizon of Ontology (2019). Norman Russell is Honorary Research Fellow of St Stephen's House, University of Oxford. He is well known as a patristics scholar and translator from Greek, Italian, and French. An experienced interpreter of Yannaras's thinking, he has already translated seven of his works.

The Inhumanity of Right

Politics & Social Sciences

Yannaras, Christos

Philosophy

James Clarke

This book, one of the earliest by Christos Yannaras, was first published in 1967 and has become a contemporary classic. Yannaras begins by outlining Heidegger's analysis of the fate of western metaphysics, which ends, he argues, in a nihilistic atheism. Yannaras's response is largely to accept Heidegger's analysis, but to argue that, although it applies to the western tradition of what Heidegger calls "onto theology" (which regards God as a 'being', even if the highest), it does not take account of the Orthodox tradition of apophatic theology, of which Dionysius the Areopagite is a pre-eminent example. A God 'beyond being' escapes the criticism of Heidegger, and provides an alternative to Heidegger's nihilistic conclusion.

On the Absence and Unknowability of God: Heidegger and the Areopagite

Louth, Andrew

T&T Clark

Bloomsbury T&T Clark

A clear and concise introduction to Orthodox theology.

Elements of Faith: An Introduction to Orthodox Theology

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

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The Freedom of Morality (Contemporary Greek Theologians Series, 3)

Giannaras, Chrēstos

St Vladimirs Seminary Pr

Christos Yannaras is a philosopher, theologian, and political thinker widely regarded as one of the most important Orthodox thinkers of the twentieth century. He sees theology along with philosophy not as an academic enterprise, but as a serious approach to reality in all the dimensions vital to life today. A controversial figure, he castigates much of what passes for Christianity in the East as well as in the West, calling it a religionization of faith. In this book he responds to searching questions concerning his work, setting his thinking as a whole in an integrated vision of knowledge, truth, relationship, and salvation.

Metaphysics As a Personal Adventure: Christos Yannaras in Conversation With Norman Russell (Orthodox Christian Profiles Series, 9)

RUSSELL, NORMAN

On the 'Meaning' of Politics (Transforming Political Theologies)

Routledge

Yannaras's book is an important contribution to the theology/science debate. It offers a respectable alternative to creationist resistance to materialistic evolutionism. It shows how spiritual reality transcends the categories of chance and necessity that materialists believe can explain everything. It argues passionately for the priority of relationality and reciprocity, the spiritual dimension through which we can discover God's causality and so enter into personal relation with him.

Postmodern Metaphysics

Holy Cross Orthodox Press

This book tells the story, from a Greek perspective, of the penetration of Orthodoxy by Western theological attitudes, beginning with the first translations of Thomas Aquinas and ending with the tradition of academic theology of the modern Greek universities. From the fourteenth century to the present day the Greek Church has either willingly adopted Western religious ideas or had them forced upon it by authoritarian Greek governments. This book tells the story, from a Greek perspective, of the penetration of Orthodoxy by Western theological attitudes, beginning with the first translations of Thomas Aquinas and ending with the tradition of academic theology of the modern Greek universities. The unfolding of the story, punctuated by many vivid portraits of the chief personalities of the times, raises searching questions about the nature of Hellenic self-identity.

Orthodoxy and the West: Hellenic Self-Identity in the Modern Age

History

Europe

Historically, the Old Testament's Song of Songs has always been interpreted as a mystical hymn of God's love for his people. More recently, it has been seen as a collection of secular love songs that Jewish and Christian tradition subsequently spiritualized. In this book Christos Yannaras unites both approaches in a powerful series of poetic images that invite us to see sexuality and spirituality as complementary to each other. We can choose how we lead our lives: according to the mode of nature or according to the mode of life. Yannaras takes us on a provocative journey that gives us insights into the unexplored nature of our being. He accompanies us through time and space, showing us how to reach out beyond self to radiant otherness.

Variations on the Song of Songs

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

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The Inhumanity of Right

On the Absence and Unknowability of God: Heidegger and the Areopagite

On the Absence and Unknowability of God: Heidegger and the Areopagite

Elements of Faith: An Introduction to Orthodox Theology

The Freedom of Morality (Contemporary Greek Theologians Series, 3)

Metaphysics As a Personal Adventure: Christos Yannaras in Conversation With Norman Russell (Orthodox Christian Profiles Series, 9)

On the 'Meaning' of Politics (Transforming Political Theologies)

Postmodern Metaphysics

Orthodoxy and the West: Hellenic Self-Identity in the Modern Age

Variations on the Song of Songs