Works by Richard H. Bell
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- Understanding African Philosophy: A Cross-Cultural Approach to Classical and Contemporary Issues.Richard H. Bell -2002 - New York: Routledge.First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
- Simone Weil: The Way of Justice as Compassion.Richard H. Bell -1998 - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.Richard H. Bell analyzes the social and political thought of Simone Weil, paying particular attention to Weil's concept of justice as compassion. Bell describes the ways in which Weil's concept of justice stands in contrast with liberal 'rights-based' views of justice, and focuses upon central aspects of her thought, including 'attention,' human suffering and 'affliction,' and the importance of 'a spiritual way of life' in reshaping the individual's role in civic life.
- G. W. F. Hegel and Richard Wagner on the Death of Jesus Christ.Richard H. Bell -forthcoming -Hegel Bulletin:1-27.Hegel’s early work The Life of Jesus (Das Leben Jesu) of 1795 presents Jesus as a teacher of Kantian morality and ends abruptly with his death, anointing of his body, and burial, such that Jesus could appear to be merely a figure of the remote past. However, within a few years Hegel’s view of the death of Jesus was to change radically. Writing of his death in terms of the ‘death of God’, this individual is transformed into the universality of (...) Spirit who dwells in the community. This paper examines how this fundamental change in Hegel’s thought came about, how Hegel’s mature understanding of the death of Jesus was appropriated by Richard Wagner in his proposed opera Jesus of Nazareth, and how this ‘death of God’ became the model for the death of Brünnhilde in the Ring cycle. For both Hegel and Wagner, the death of Christ can only be understood as a self-involving enterprise, the bringing together of the ‘objective’ and ‘subjective’. Further, Wagner largely shares Hegel’s immanent understanding of God, although under other influences he can affirm the idea of a transcendent God or a transcendent world. (shrink)No categories
- Narrative in African Philosophy.Richard H. Bell -1989 -Philosophy 64 (249):363 - 379.P. O. Bodunrin, in his 1981 essay, asks: ‘Is there an African Philosophy, and if there is, what is it?’ This question has occupied centre stage among younger African intellectuals for about a decade now. The most articulate among these intellectuals, who are themselves philosophers, are Bodunrin , Kwasi Wiredu , H. Odera Oruka , Marcien Towa and Eboussi Boulaga , and Paulin Hountondji . These philosophers among others are in dialogue with one another and currently are seen to be (...) the principal architects of a new orientation in African thought. (shrink)
- Wittgenstein and Descriptive Theology.Richard H. Bell -1969 -Religious Studies 5 (1):1 - 18.‘The work of the philosopher consists in assembling reminders for particular purposes.’ Among the many purposes for which Wittgenstein assembled reminders, the deeper understanding of the religious life would have to qualify as one. Though on first reading this would hardly seem obvious, I hope to make this abundantly clear through an examination of his later literature. There are two ways in which he sheds light on religious issues: first , by the personal passion of his own life and the (...) forthright display of intellectual integrity expected of any professional thinker toward any discipline , and, second , by making his philosophical investigations descriptive. Any analysis of religious issues or the understanding of the religious life should involve the high degree of personal integrity and the rigorously descriptive method which Wittgenstein makes apparent throughout his writing. (shrink)
- Wittgenstein Attention to Particulars : Essays in Honour of Rush Rhees.Richard H. Bell -1989
- A kierkegaard reader: texts & narratives.Richard H. Bell -1990 -History of European Ideas 12 (5):697-697.
- Giacometti's art as a judgment on culture.Richard H. Bell -1989 -Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 47 (1):15-20.
- Moral beauty happens".Richard H. Bell -2009 - In Pedro Alexis Tabensky,The positive function of evil. New York: Palgrave-Macmillan.Export citation
Bookmark - No Title available: REVIEWS.Richard H. Bell -1978 -Religious Studies 14 (4):547-548.
- No Title available.Richard H. Bell -1989 -Religious Studies 25 (4):538-539.
- No title available: Religious studies.Richard H. Bell -1990 -Religious Studies 26 (1):166-175.
- On trusting one's own heart: Scepticism in Jonathan Edwards and Søren Kierkegaard.Richard H. Bell -1990 -History of European Ideas 12 (1):105-116.
- Religion and Wittgenstein's legacy – edited by D. Z. Phillips and Mario Von der ruhr.Richard H. Bell -2006 -Philosophical Investigations 30 (1):100–103.
- Rethinking Justice: Restoring Our Humanity.Richard H. Bell &Walter Brueggemann -2007 - Lexington Books.Rethinking Justice lifts up and restores an idea of justice found in classical writers as well as more recent thinkers. Justice deals with righting wrongs and restoring peace to individuals and communities. We have lost sight of this and must return to it in mind and practice.
- Simone Weil's philosophy of culture: readings toward a divine humanity.Richard H. Bell (ed.) -1993 - New York, NY, USA: Cambridge University Press.As the editor of this volume writes in his introduction: 'Simone Weil's philosophy is one that interrogates and contemplates our culture; it makes us aware of our lack of attention to words and empty ideologies, to human suffering, to the indignity of work, to our excessive use of power, to religious dogmatisms. Rather than set out a system of ideas, Simone Weil uses her philosophical reflections to show how to think about work and oppression, freedom and the good, necessity and (...) power, love and justice - even how to think about, or not think about, God. In this way we are asked to examine the human condition and learn to discern a way through it.' This is one of the very few books available in English to present a comprehensive interpretation of the philosophy of Simone Weil and how her thought can cast light on issues of contemporary importance such as work, justice, the law, war and peace, and issues of more general moral and theological concern. (shrink)
- The Aesthetic Factor in Art and Religion.Richard H. Bell -1986 -Religious Studies 22 (2):181 - 192.Wittgenstein, in his characteristic way of indirectly bringing us to see an important feature in human life, said: ‘… art shows us the miracles of nature… We say: “Just look at it opening out!” This essay discusses how works of art ‘blossom’ and thus elicit an imaginative human response. Its various parts focus on the connected theme that some sensible component is essential to the production and comprehension of art. Each part, however, investigates a different aspect of the theme and (...) could stand on its own. What will be argued about this aesthetic factor in art will also be shown to cast light on our understanding of certain narrative texts and ceremonial acts of religion. (shrink)
- Theology as Grammar: Is God an Object of Understanding?Richard H. Bell -1975 -Religious Studies 11 (3):307 - 317.i. In the Philosophical Investigations , Ludwig Wittgenstein yoked together these remarks: Essence is expressed by grammar. Grammar tells what kind of object anything is.
- The Grammar of the Heart: New Essays in Moral Philosophy & Theology.Richard H. Bell -1988 - HarperCollins Publishers.No categories
- Understanding the Fire-Festivals: Wittgenstein and Theories in Religion.Richard H. Bell -1978 -Religious Studies 14 (1):113 - 124.The riddle Frazer confronts us with in The Golden Bough is posed in the form of a question. ‘Why is this happening?’ - this life and death of the King of the Wood at Nemi? In the related context of his accounts of the fire-festivals in Europe, Frazer refines the question in a more dramatic form: ‘What is the meaning of such sacrifices? Why were men and animals burnt to death at these festivals?’ Frazer recognizes something serious in all this. (...) The practice of human sacrifice is puzzling; it does leave us disquieted! But Frazer's search for what he calls ‘a fairly probable explanation’ of the motives which gave rise to the priesthood of Nemi and its embodiment of the practice of human sacrifice, Wittgenstein in his ‘Remarks on Frazer's Golden Bough’ feels, does not help us to understand a practice like the burning of a man! With all the additional data, numerous theories, and the historical tracing of origins we are no closer to resolving the perplexities of the riddle than the riddle itself presents to us daily. (shrink)
- Introduction.Richard H. Bell -2001 -Philosophical Papers 30 (3):201-204.This issue of Philosophical Papers assembles eight essays that are part of the larger conversation on African philosophy and the analytic tradition. Several leading philosophers have contributed to this issue with provocative remarks, beginning with a three-way debate on the nature of philosophy itself as understood and practiced in the African context. It continues with essays on consensual democracy, authoritarianism, race and cultural identity, the cosmopolitan ideal, and belief and witchcraft.
- Wittgenstein's Anthropology Self-understanding and Understanding Other Cultures.Richard H. Bell -1984 -Philosophical Investigations 7 (4):295-312.
- Norman Fiering. Jonathan Edward's Moral Thought and Its British Context. (Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 1981.). [REVIEW]Richard H. Bell -1985 -Religious Studies 21 (4):605-607.
- R. Riesner, D. Stott : Paul’s Early Period. Chronology, Mission Strategy, Theology. Pp. xvi + 535. Grand Rapids, MI and Cambridge: William B. Eerdmans, 1998. Paper, $50. ISBN: 0-8028-4166-X. [REVIEW]Richard H. Bell -2000 -The Classical Review 50 (1):322-322.
- Wittgenstein: Attention to Particulars Essays in honour of Rush Rhees (1905–1989), edited by D. Z. Phillips and Peter Winch (London: Macmillan, 1989), 205 pp., £20.00. [REVIEW]Richard H. Bell -1990 -Philosophy 65 (253):382-384.
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