This book offers a critical introduction to the work of American philosopher D. G. Leahy (1937–2014). Leahy’s fundamental thinking can be characterized as an
absolute creativity in which all creating is ‘live’—a happening occurring
now that manifests a supersaturated polyontological actuality that is essentially created by the logic that characterizes it. Leahy leaves behind the categorial presuppositions of modern thought, eclipsing both Cartesian and Hegelian subjectivities and introducing instead an essentially new form of thinking founded in a nondual logic of creation. The new thinking delineates the absolute unicity of existence as a creative interactivity beyond all traditional dichotomies (such as one vs. many, unity vs. plurality, identity vs. change): a fully ‘digitized’ actuality that is nothing but newness, which inherently implies
nothing but change. Through this new form of thinking, change itself is revealed to be the very essence of reality and mind. Any reader looking for a quantum leap beyond the thrall of modern and postmodern fixations is invited to hear and apprehend this new thinking that refuses to be conditioned by paradigms, categories, species, genera, walls, bridges, boundaries, or abstractions: an essentially free thinking that embodies creative novelty itself.
İçerik tablosu
Preface
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction to D. G. Leahy: A Quick Start Guide for the Vexed and Perplexed
Lissa Mc Cullough
Part I: History and Time
1. History and the Thinking Now Occurring
Charles Stein
2. Temporal Diremption and the Novelty of Genuine Repetition
Elliot R. Wolfson
3. A Metaphysics of Enchantment or a Case of Immanentizing the Eschaton?
Graham James Mc Aleer
Part II: Apocalyptic Actuality
4. Apocalypticism in Modern Thinking: Descartes, Hegel, Leahy
Thomas J. J. Altizer
5. The Shape of Catholic Apocalypse
Cyril O’Regan
6. The Act of Omnipotence: Abolition of the Mystical Quest
Michael James Dise
Part III: A Physical Ethics
7. The Ethic of Simplicity
Nathan Tierney
8. The Vanishment of Evil from the World
Todd Carter
9. The Transparency of the Good
Alina N. Feld
Part IV: The Edge Where Creating Begins
10. Concerning the Absolute Edge
Edward S. Casey
11. To Think the Beginning: The Apocalyptic ‘I’
Sarah Lilly Eaton
12. Life at the Edge: Medicine and the New Thinking
Steven B. Hoath, MD
Glossary of Key Terms in D. G. Leahy
D. G. Leahy Comprehensive Bibliography
D. G. Leahy Biographical Sketch
Contributors
Index
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Lissa Mc Cullough is Lecturer in Philosophy at California State University, Dominguez Hills. She is editor of
The Call to Radical Theology by Thomas J. J. Altizer and coeditor (with Brian Schroeder) of
Thinking through the Death of God: A Critical Companion to Thomas J. J. Altizer, both also published by SUNY Press.
Elliot R. Wolfson is Marsha and Jay Glazer Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His many books include
Heidegger and Kabbalah: Hidden Gnosis and the Path of Poiēsis.
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