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An Exigence for the Other

其他書名	Exploring Intersubjectivity Through Lonergan, Levinas, and Girard
出版	University of Toronto, 2018
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=4ctBzwEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋This thesis explores intersubjectivity's often-overlooked impact upon the drama of human progress, decline, and redemption. First, I establish Bernard Lonergan's account of subjectivity and self-transcendence as a base for analyzing intersubjectivity's integral role in the operations of consciousness, communal self-constitution, and socio-cultural development. I then suggest that Emmanuel Levinas offers resources for expanding Lonergan's account of intersubjectivity by illustrating its inherent link to an ethics of alterity. Next, I outline René Girard's work with acquisitive mimesis, exploring how his writings unmask the many ways interdividuation and pre-thematic rivalry can distort intersubjectivity, connecting his work to Lonergan's account of bias. Contextualizing the decline resulting from such disorder as a series of crises of meaning, I argue that John Dadosky's post-Lonergan development of a fourth stage of meaning provides necessary resources for overcoming relational crises and decline. I then undertake my own exploration of the fourth stage of meaning, relating the interdependent principles of alterity and similarity to intersubjectivity and its role in the healing and elevation of humanity's relational capacities. Lonergan's Four-Point Hypothesis provides a framework for understanding and fostering humanity's cooperation with this healing and elevating love, and my thesis' concluding section resources this hypothesis to argue that our principal participation in God's meaning in history-the meaning that overcomes evil with love-is itself an imitative participation in God's love. This love reintegrates and reorders the "prior 'we'" of intersubjectivity in conformity with the divine "We" of the Triune God.