Böcker av Sean J. McGrath

This is the first major effort to systematically organise and evaluate Schelling's arguments for a Philosophy of Revelation and to demonstrate their importance for contemporary debates in speculative realism, new realism and post-secularism.

Moving between ancient and modern sources, philosophy and theology, and science and popular culture, Sean McGrath offers a genuinely new reflection on what it means to be human in an era of climate change, mass extinction and geoengineering. Engaging with contemporary thinkers in eco-criticism, including Timothy Morton, Bruno Latour and Slavoj Zizek, McGrath argues for a distinctive role for the human being in the universe: the human being is nature come to full consciousness. McGrath's compelling case for a new Anthropocenic humanism is founded on a reverence for nature, a humanism that is not at the expense of nature, and a naturalism that is not at the expense of the human.

An uncovering of the postsecular relevance of the late Schelling's Philosophy of RevelationSchelling's decisionism has long been recognised as the historical root of European existentialism, but has never been properly explained as a philosophical strategy. According to McGrath, Schelling's turn to the real is neither fideistic nor absurdist, the consequence of the free decision of the philosopher who has critically evaluated the results of speculative logic, nature philosophy, and the history of religion.This is a pioneering effort to reconstruct Schelling's argument for the truth of the doctrine of the Trinity and to assess its philosophical and theological validity.Sean J. McGrath is Professor of Philosophy and Theology at Memorial University of Newfoundland.