Re-treating Religion (häftad)
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Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
404
Utgivningsdatum
2012-02-13
Förlag
Fordham University Press
Medarbetare
Nancy, Jean-Luc (preface)
Dimensioner
226 x 150 x 28 mm
Vikt
545 g
Antal komponenter
1
ISBN
9780823234653

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Re-treating Religion (häftad)

Re-treating Religion

Deconstructing Christianity with Jean-Luc Nancy

av Ignaas Devisch, Laurens Ten Kate, Aukje Van Rooden, Alena Alexandrova
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One of the most complicated and ambiguous tendencies in contemporary western societies is the phenomenon referred to as the "turn to religion." In philosophy, one of the most original thinkers critically questioning this "turn" is Jean-Luc Nancy. Re-treating Religion is the first volume to analyze his long-term project "The Deconstruction of Christianity," especially his major statement of it in Dis-Enclosure. Nancy conceives monotheistic religion and secularization not as opposite worldviews that succeed each other in time but rather as springing from the same history. This history consists in a paradoxical tendency to contest one's own foundations-whether God, truth, origin, humanity, or rationality-as well as to found itself on the void of this contestation. Nancy calls this unique combination of self-contestation and self-foundation the "self-deconstruction" of the Western world. The book includes discussion with Nancy himself, who contributes a substantial "Preamble" and a concluding dialogue with the volume editors. The contributions follow Nancy in tracing the complexities of Western culture back to the persistent legacy of monotheism, in order to illuminate the tensions and uncertainties we face in the twenty-first century.
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"Features some of Nancy's clearest, most succinct formulations of his approach to the question of Christianity. A comprehensive and splendidly timely account of a debate of immense importance." -- -Martin Crowley Queens' College

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Alena Alexandrova is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design, University of Bergen. Jean-Luc Nancy (1940-2021) was a French philosopher and Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Strasbourg. He is especially known for works such as The Inoperative Community, The Experience of Freedom, Being Singular Plural, The Sense of the World, and The Creation of the World or Globalization. Translations of his later important works such as the two volumes of The Deconstruction of Christianity, The Disavowed Community, and Sexistence have been published by Fordham University Press.