Freedom and shame revisited: a phenomenological perspective

Michael Amaladoss: A Countercultural Theologian

This essay introduces Father Michael Amaladoss, SJ, with a focus on the praxis-oriented framework that shapes his theological thought. Central to this is his countercultural stance, which is best understood within its broader historical, intellectual, and theological context. Father Amaladoss critiques academism—the pr...

Unverborgenheit und Schein

This book presents a phenomenological interpretation of Heidegger’s conception of truth in the context of “Being and Time”. Contrary to a common criticism, the author argues that Heidegger’s novel conception of truth as unconcealedness does not abandon the specific meaning of truth. Rather, the distinction between trut...

The Self as Seen: The Epistemic Function and Limits of Shame in Dance of the Happy Shades

In Munro’s fiction, shame typically arises when characters have done nothing wrong, through being seen, compared, and exposed. This article therefore treats shame not as derivative of gender, class, or maturation, but as an experience with ethical and epistemic significance of its own. Drawing on Bernard Williams, it a...

The Infinite Psyche and Virtual Unity

James Hillman is well known for his critique of Jung’s Self as a totalizing import from monotheistic religion, which erases differences within an infinitely pluralistic psyche. This topic remains a tension within contemporary post-Jungian discourse. In this paper, I propose the dispute between Hillman and Jung must b...

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Repressing the Absence of the Truth: Walter Mosley's Devil in a Blue Dress

Abstract:While hermeneutic criticism of Devil in a Blue Dress essentializes the identity of its protagonist Easy Rawlins, this deconstructive study examines Rawlins as lacking such a referent. From this perspective, the novel allegorizes Derridean destinerrance, the open-ended deferral of meaning. Rawlins represses a s...