Friendship as Sacred Knowing: Overcoming Isolation by Samuel Kimbriel (English)

Description: Friendship as Sacred Knowing by Samuel Kimbriel Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Hardcover Condition Brand New Description Samuel Kimbriel advocates a return to an antique and particularly Christian philosophical habit--"the befriending of wisdom"--in which knowledge is taken to be a kind of communion with God. Publisher Description We are haunted, Samuel Kimbriel suggests, by a habit of isolation buried, often imperceptibly, within our practices of understanding and relating to the world. In Friendship as Sacred Knowing, Kimbriel works through the complexities of this disposition to contest its place within contemporary philosophical thought and practice.Stories of isolation amidst the fragmentation of community are familiar in this age, as are tales ofalienation provoked by the insistent indifference of the scientific cosmos. This book goes beyond such stories, arguing that the crisis of loneliness in the present age is deeper yet, betokening a more fundamentalincoherence within the modern personality itself.Kimbriel engages deeply with the human activity of friendship. Chapters one and two examine friendship to unearth the contours of the habit towards isolation and to reveal certain ills that have long attended it. Chapters three through seven place these isolated ways of relating to the world into critical dialogue with the tradition of late-antique and early-medieval Johannine Christianity, in which intimacy andunderstanding go hand in hand.This Johannine tradition drew the human activities of friendship and enquiry into such unity that understanding itself became a kind of communion. Kimbrielendorses a return to an antique and particularly Christian philosophical habit-"the befriending of wisdom." Author Biography Samuel Kimbriel is a teaching fellow in philosophical theology at the University of Nottingham. He holds an MPhil and PhD from the University of Cambridge. Details ISBN 0199363986 ISBN-13 9780199363988 Title Friendship as Sacred Knowing Author Samuel Kimbriel Format Hardcover Year 2014 Pages 240 Publisher Oxford University Press Inc GE_Item_ID:137030111; About Us Grand Eagle Retail is the ideal place for all your shopping needs! With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and over 1,000,000 in stock items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! Shipping & Delivery Times Shipping is FREE to any address in USA. Please view eBay estimated delivery times at the top of the listing. Deliveries are made by either USPS or Courier. We are unable to deliver faster than stated. International deliveries will take 1-6 weeks. NOTE: We are unable to offer combined shipping for multiple items purchased. This is because our items are shipped from different locations. Returns If you wish to return an item, please consult our Returns Policy as below: Please contact Customer Services and request "Return Authorisation" before you send your item back to us. Unauthorised returns will not be accepted. Returns must be postmarked within 4 business days of authorisation and must be in resellable condition. Returns are shipped at the customer's risk. We cannot take responsibility for items which are lost or damaged in transit. For purchases where a shipping charge was paid, there will be no refund of the original shipping charge. Additional Questions If you have any questions please feel free to Contact Us. Categories Baby Books Electronics Fashion Games Health & Beauty Home, Garden & Pets Movies Music Sports & Outdoors Toys

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