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    The Improvisation of Musical Dialogue: A Phenomenology of Music.Bruce Ellis Benson - 2003 - New York: Cambridge University Press.
    This book is an important contribution to the philosophy of music. Whereas most books in this field focus on the creation and reproduction of music, Bruce Benson's concern is the phenomenology of music making as an activity. He offers the radical thesis that it is improvisation that is primary in the moment of music making. Succinct and lucid, the book brings together a wide range of musical examples from classical music, jazz, early music and other genres. It offers a rich (...)
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    Liturgy as a Way of Life: Embodying the Arts in Christian Worship.Bruce Ellis Benson - 2013 - Baker Academic.
    How do the arts inform and cultivate our service to God? In this addition to an award-winning series, distinguished philosopher Bruce Ellis Benson rethinks what it means to be artistic. Rather than viewing art as practiced by the few, he recovers the ancient Christian idea of presenting ourselves to God as works of art, reenvisioning art as the very core of our being: God calls us to improvise as living works of art. Benson also examines the nature of liturgy and (...)
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    Pious Nietzsche: Decadence and Dionysian Faith.Bruce Ellis Benson - 2007 - Indiana University Press.
    Bruce Ellis Benson puts forward the surprising idea that Nietzsche was never a godless nihilist, but was instead deeply religious. But how does Nietzsche affirm life and faith in the midst of decadence and decay? Benson looks carefully at Nietzsche's life history and views of three decadents, Socrates, Wagner, and Paul, to come to grips with his pietistic turn. Key to this understanding is Benson's interpretation of the powerful effect that Nietzsche thinks music has on the human spirit. Benson claims (...)
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    (1 other version)Chrétien on the call that wounds.Bruce Ellis Benson - 2010 - In Bruce Ellis Benson & Norman Wirzba (eds.), Words of life: new theological turns in French phenomenology. New York: Fordham University Press. pp. 208-221.
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    Words of life: new theological turns in French phenomenology.Bruce Ellis Benson & Norman Wirzba (eds.) - 2010 - New York: Fordham University Press.
    Words of Life is the sequel and companion to Phenomenology and the "Theological Turn," edited by Dominique Janicaud, Jean-Francois Courtine, Jean-Louis Chrétien, Michel Henry, Jean-Luc Marion, and Paul Ricoeur. In that volume, Janicaud accuses Levinas, Henry, Marion, and Chrétien of "veering" from phenomenological neutrality to a theologically inflected phenomenology. By contrast, the contributors to this collection interrogate whether phenomenology's proper starting point is agnostic or atheistic. Many hold the view that phenomenology after the theological turn may very well be true (...)
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    Graven Ideologies: Nietzsche, Derrida Marion on Modern Idolatry.Bruce Ellis Benson - 2002 - InterVarsity Press.
    Examining the thought of key postmodern thinkers like Nietzsche, Derrida and Marion, Bruce Ellis Benson offers profound insight into the nature of conceptual idolatry and our need for the biblical revelation of God in Jesus Christ.
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    Introduction.Bruce Ellis Benson - 2010 - In Bruce Ellis Benson & Norman Wirzba (eds.), Words of life: new theological turns in French phenomenology. New York: Fordham University Press. pp. 1-12.
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    In the Beginning, There Was Improvisation.Bruce Ellis Benson - 2016 - In George E. Lewis & Benjamin Piekut (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Critical Improvisation Studies, Volume 2. Oxford University Press USA.
    The theological doctrine of creatio ex nihilo attempts to safeguard both the power and freedom of God. If creation is understood as God’s work of art, then creatio ex nihilo is the strongest artistic account of creation possible. The Kantian artist possesses something like this power and freedom, since his or her original and exemplary ideas arise inexplicably. The modern and romantic artistic traditions have perpetuated this myth of the lone artist whose creation is a kind of godlike activity. This (...)
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  9. The phenomenology of prayer.Bruce Ellis Benson & Norman Wirzba (eds.) - 2005 - New York: Fordham University Press.
    This collection of ground-breaking essays considers the many dimensions of prayer: how prayer relates us to the divine; prayer's ability to reveal what is essential about our humanity; the power of prayer to transform human desire and action; and the relation of prayer to cognition. It takes up the meaning of prayer from within a uniquely phenomenological point of view, demonstrating that the phenomenology of prayer is as much about the character and boundaries of phenomenological analysis as it is about (...)
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    The Dance That Transforms: Gadamer on Morality, Music, and Religion.Bruce Ellis Benson - 2023 - In Sam McAuliffe (ed.), Gadamer, Music, and Philosophical Hermeneutics. Springer Verlag. pp. 51-62.
    The reason why Gadamer’s Truth and Method opens with a discussion of ‘humanistic’ concepts—Bildung, judgment, sensus communis, tact, and taste—is that these ‘ways of knowing’ are basic to human knowledge and understanding. In this paper, I consider the role that religion (defined in a broad sense) played in helping human beings develop a common sense of understanding. Specifically, I examine some instances of religion in the form of song and dance—forms of religion that appear to date back to many thousands (...)
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    Resisting “Forgiveness Oppression”.Bruce Ellis Benson - 2021 - Philosophy Today 65 (4):863-879.
    Victims of abuse and violence are often pressured to forgive their perpetrators. The idea of unconditional forgiveness—forgiveness granted regardless of apology, remorse, or change of behavior—has become a norm for many in the west and those who refuse to forgive are often seen as resentful and bitter. Yet those imploring forgiveness are often the powerful and those asked to forgive are often minorities who have comparatively little power. Since forgiveness in western culture derives from Jesus’s teachings, I return to those (...)
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    A Response to Smith’s “Continental Philosophy of Religion.Bruce Ellis Benson - 2009 - Faith and Philosophy 26 (4):449-456.
    All of us working in continental philosophy of religion can be grateful to James K. A. Smith for his call to consider which practices will best further the “health” of the burgeoning subdiscipline of continental philosophy of religion. Given that he offers his suggestions “in the spirit of ‘conversation starters,’” my response is designed to continue what I hope will be an ongoing conversation. With that goal in mind, I respond to Smith by considering not only the practicality of each (...)
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  13. Appropriating Westphal appropriating Nietzsche : Merold Westphal as a theological resource.Bruce Ellis Benson - 2009 - In B. Keith Putt (ed.), Gazing through a prism darkly: reflections on Merold Westphal's hermeneutical epistemology. New York: Fordham University Press.
     
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  14. Continental philosophyof religion.Bruce Ellis Benson - 2007 - In Paul Copan & Chad V. Meister (eds.), Philosophy of Religion: Classic and Contemporary Issues. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.
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    Evil, Fallenness, and Finitude.Bruce Ellis Benson & B. Keith Putt (eds.) - 2017 - Cham: Palgrave-Macmillan.
    This collection addresses the perennial philosophical and theological issues of human finitude and the potentiality for evil. The contributors approach these issues from perspectives in Continental philosophy relating to phenomenology, philosophical hermeneutics, rabbinical traditions, drawing upon the work of Immanuel Kant, Søren Kierkegaard, and Paul Ricoeur. While centering on the traditional theme of theodicy, this volume is also oriented to the phenomenology of religion, with contributions across religions and intellectual traditions.
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    9. How Continental Philosophy of Religion Came into Being and Where It Is Going.Bruce Ellis Benson - 2020 - In Gregory P. Floyd & Stephanie Rumpza (eds.), The Catholic Reception of Continental Philosophy in North America. University of Toronto Press. pp. 220-244.
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    Heidegger's philosophy of religion: From God to the Gods.Bruce Ellis Benson - 2008 - Research in Phenomenology 38 (3):447-454.
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    Ingarden and the problem of jazz.Bruce Ellis Benson - 1993 - Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie 55 (4):677 - 693.
    Rather than being concerned with questions of aesthetic standards, Ingarden focuses on the question of where a musical work exists. Thus he attempts to draw clear distinctions between musical works, scores, and performances. Yet, while these distinctions seem questionable even from the standpoint of classical music, in jazz, which operates under a paradigm in which improvisation is primary, they prove far more problematic. A crucial assumption behind Ingarden's view of music is that musical performance is essentially a kind of faithful (...)
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    Jazz: l'Autre exotique.Bruce Ellis Benson - 2005 - Horizons Philosophiques 16 (1):86-100.
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    Kierkegaard and Nietzsche on the Best Way of Life: A New Method of Ethics.Bruce Ellis Benson - 2015 - New Nietzsche Studies 9 (3):229-229.
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    Nietzsche's musical.Bruce Ellis Benson - unknown
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    Notes on.Bruce Ellis Benson, Jeanette Bicknell, Stephen Blum, Lee B. Brown & Malcolm Budd - 2011 - In Theodore Gracyk & Andrew Kania (eds.), The Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Music. New York: Routledge.
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  23. Phenomenology of music.Bruce Ellis Benson - 2011 - In Theodore Gracyk & Andrew Kania (eds.), The Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Music. New York: Routledge.
     
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  24. Stealing licks : recording and identity in jazz.Bruce Ellis Benson - 2008 - In Mine Doğantan (ed.), Recorded music: philosophical and critical reflections. London: Middlesex University Press.
     
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    The Fundamental Heteronomy of Jazz Improvisation.Bruce Ellis Benson - 2006 - Revue Internationale de Philosophie 4 (4):453-467.
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    The Kingdom of Heaven as Endless Hermeneutic: A Phenomenology of the Way.Bruce Ellis Benson - 2017 - Sophia 56 (1):59-67.
    In this essay, I attempt to think along with Kevin Hart, though improvising on his text in my own way, by suggesting that ‘the way’ is one that calls anyone who wishes to follow, that it is, at heart, all about doing battle with oneself, and that this battle is best thought of as an endless hermeneutic, one inaugurated by Jesus yet also with classical precedents.
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    The prayers and tears of Friedrich Nietzsche.Bruce Ellis Benson - 2005 - In Bruce Ellis Benson & Norman Wirzba (eds.), The phenomenology of prayer. New York: Fordham University Press. pp. 73-87.
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    The “Thinking-After” of Metanoia.Bruce Ellis Benson - 2004 - Philosophy and Theology 16 (2):217-228.
    Although Breton barely mentions the term “metanoia,” it well describes the radical change that takes place for anyone who adopts the logic of the cross. In effect, that logic results in a self that is radically de-centered. Moreover, to embrace that logic is to give up the demand for both reasons and signs. Arguing for a radicalconception of kenosis, Breton insists that it is a true emptying that remains powerless and senseless in light of any worldly logos and, as such, (...)
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    The Two-Fold Task of Christian Philosophy of Religion.Bruce Ellis Benson - 2015 - Faith and Philosophy 32 (4):371-390.
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    Nietzsche's Musical Askesis for Resisting Decadence.Bruce Ellis Benson - 2007 - Journal of Nietzsche Studies 34 (1):28-46.
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    Hermeneutics at the Crossroads.Kevin J. Vanhoozer, James K. A. Smith & Bruce Ellis Benson (eds.) - 2006 - Indiana University Press.
    In this multi-faceted volume, Christian and other religiously committed theorists find themselves at an uneasy point in history—between premodernity, modernity, and postmodernity—where disciplines and methods, cultural and linguistic traditions, and religious commitments tangle and cross. Here, leading theorists explore the state of the art of the contemporary hermeneutical terrain. As they address the work of Gadamer, Ricoeur, and Derrida, the essays collected in this wide-ranging work engage key themes in philosophical hermeneutics, hermeneutics and religion, hermeneutics and the other arts, hermeneutics (...)
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    Transforming Philosophy and Religion: Love's Wisdom.Norman Wirzba & Bruce Ellis Benson (eds.) - 2008 - Indiana University Press.
    Norman Wirzba, Bruce Ellis Benson, and an international group of philosophers and theologians describe how various expressions of philosophy are transformed by the discipline of love. What is at stake is how philosophy colors and shapes the way we receive and engage each other, our world, and God. Focusing primarily on the Continental tradition of philosophy of religion, the work presented in this volume engages thinkers such as St. Paul, Meister Eckhart, Kierkegaard, Husserl, Heidegger, Ricoeur, Derrida, Marion, Zizek, Irigaray, and (...)
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  33. In the Self's Place: The Approach of Saint Augustine. [REVIEW]J. Alec Geno & Bruce Ellis Benson - 2014 - Comparative and Continental Philosophy 6 (1):84-89.
    In the Self's Place: The Approach of Saint Augustine presents Jean-Luc Marion's rethinking of the modern notion of the self by way of an original reading of Saint Augustine through the lens of a phenomenology of givenness. Here he tests the hermeneutic validity of concepts forged in his previous works. His goal is to show that the Confessiones are inscribed within the confessio, that love is an underlying epistemic condition of truth, and that God's call and our response to God (...)
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    Lambert Zuidervaart, Artistic Truth: Aesthetics, Discourse, and Imaginative Disclosure. [REVIEW]Bruce Ellis Benson - 2007 - Philosophical Review 116 (1):118-121.
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    Continental Philosophy. [REVIEW]Bruce Ellis Benson - 2006 - International Philosophical Quarterly 46 (3):387-388.