Personalism Revisited: Its Proponents and Critics

Harold H. Oliver , Thomas O. Buford
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Personalism Revisited: Its Proponents and Critics

Harold H. Oliver , Thomas O. Buford
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  • Published date: Jan 01, 2002
  • Language: English
  • No. of Pages: 399
  • Publisher: Brill
  • ISBN: 9789042015197
  • Dimensions: 6.102362204" W x 1.0" L x 9.05511811" H
Thomas O. Buford is the Louis G. Forgione Professor of Philosophy at Furman University, where he has taught since 1969. He is the author or editor of eight books, including Essays on Other Minds (U. Of Illinois Press), Contemporary Studies in Philosophical Idealism (with John Howie; Claud Stark, Publishers), and In Search of a Calling (Mercer University Press). In 1985 he founded The Personalism Forum, which he edited until 1998; the journal is now edited by Randall Auxier at Southern Illinois University. And in 1989 he and Charles Conti of the University of Sussex founded The International Conference on Person, which meets every other year, alternating between Europe and the United States. From 1985 though 1999 he was the Secretary of the Personalist Discussion Group, an organization which has met at the Eastern Division Meetings of The American Philosophical Association every year since 1938.
Harold H. Oliver is Emeritus Professor of New Testament and Theology, School of Theology, Boston University. A graduate of Samford University, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Princeton University, and Emory University, Professor Oliver has held an American Association of Theological Schools Faculty Fellowship and at Cambridge University he was the Fellow of Cross-disciplinary Studies. He has contributed to scholarly journals, including Journal of Bible and Religion, Perspectives on Religious Studies, Zygon, Journal of Religion & Science, and the Journal of The American Academy of Religion. Harold is best for known for his seminal work, A Relational Metaphysic, Nijhoff, 1981. He now lives in Deatsville, Alabama.
"I consider this volume a welcomed contribution to American philosophy because it portrays American personalistic idealism as a living philosophic tradition, not as something that died during the later half of the twentieth- century. It also enables contemporary philosophers who are not personalists themselves, but who are interested in American philosophy and in fostering “personal - human - values in a world rapidly undergoing depersonalization” (p. xiii), to have an informed engagement with American personalism -both in its traditional form and its more contemporary versions." - in: Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society
"Personalism Revisited is one of the latest offerings in the Value Inquiry Book Series (VIBS), belonging to the subseries Histories and Addresses of Philosophical Societies (HAPS). Editions Rodopi and the VIBS are doing the philosophical community a great boon by encouraging the leaders of the various philosophical societies to gather and publish their histories before those histories begin to pass away … Hull wrote a foreword and compiled an outstanding index for Personalism Revisited and is by anyone’s standards doing yeoman’s work for the profession … HAPS is, as Hull states ‘saving from obscurity and loss the elements of much philosophy done in the post-modern era’ … [the archival committee has done] a tremendous job, and the amount of effort expended in documenting and structuring this volume has been immense … If this volume documents one thing clearly, it is that the dynamic conversation of philosophical minds, sincerely and openly engaged, can lead to the development of more adequate perspectives. The editors of this volume have done an excellent job of presenting these essays in ways that make it possible for attentive readers now and in the indefinite future to see how philosophy can work when it does work" - in: Journal of Speculative Philosophy, Vol. 19, No 1 (2005), pp. 81-87

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