For For students of philosophy interested in how Lonergan read logic and existentialism; not for a newcomer.
Should I read this?
For the general reader
1 of 5specialist interest
For the researcher
3 of 5worth your time
Difficulty
5 of 5very hard
Lectures of 1957 on mathematical logic and on existentialism, including Husserl and Heidegger. For students of philosophy who know Insight.
How it proceeds
Philosophic5 of 5
Scriptural0 of 5
Experiential1 of 5
Sociological0 of 5
Historical2 of 5
Independent intensities, 0–5 — what the work is made of, not how good it is.
Volume 18 of the Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan, edited by Philip McShane and published by the University of Toronto Press in 2001. It presents the lectures Lonergan gave at Boston College in the summer of 1957, the year Insight appeared: one course on mathematical logic and one on existentialism, including his reading of Husserl and Heidegger. The lectures were not published in his lifetime.
