Re-treating Religion by Alena Alexandrova
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 turnis 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-deconstructionof the Western world.The book includes discussion with Nancy himself, who contributes a substantial Preambleand 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-
The Animal That Therefore I Am
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Deconstruction in a Nutshell
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Postmodern Apologetics?
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The Ground of the Image
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Corpus
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Crossing the Rubicon
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Prolegomena to Charity
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The Metamorphosis of Finitude
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Emmanuel Levinas
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The Decolonial Abyss
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Murderous Consent
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In Excess
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Miracle and Machine
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Experience and the Absolute
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What Should We Do with Our Brain?
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Heidegger's Technologies
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Sovereignties in Question
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Derrida Vis-a-vis Lacan
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How Are We to Confront Death?
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The Trespass of the Sign
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The Implications of Immanence
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Radical Hospitality
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The Ruse of Techne
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The Call and the Response
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Ethical Hermeneutics
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Heidegger, Hoelderlin, and the Subject of Poetic Language
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Reflection Revisited
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Journeys to Selfhood
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Scheler's Ethical Personalism
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The Enigma of Gift and Sacrifice
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Both/and
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The Visible and the Revealed
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Interstices of the Sublime
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Saintly Influence
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Thinking Difference
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The God Who Deconstructs Himself
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Words of Life
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Theopoetic Folds
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The Exorbitant
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Quiet Powers of the Possible
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Hans Urs Von Balthasar and the Dramatic Structure of Truth
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The Conditions of Hospitality
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Material Spirit
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Questions of Phenomenology
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Fielding Derrida
"Features some of Nancy's clearest, most succinct formulations of his approach to the question of ChristianityA comprehensive and splendidly timely account of a debate of immense importance." -- -Martin Crowley Queens' College
Alena Alexandrova is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design, University of Bergen.
Jean-Luc Nancy (1940–2021) was Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Université de Strasbourg and one of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century's foremost thinkers of politics, art, and the body. His wide-ranging thought runs through many books, including Being Singular Plural, The Ground of the Image, Corpus, The Disavowed Community, and Sexistence. His book The Intruder was adapted into an acclaimed film by Claire Denis.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780823234646 |
| ISBN 10 | 0823234649 |
| Title | Re-treating Religion |
| Author | Alena Alexandrova |
| Series | Perspectives In Continental Philosophy |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Fordham University Press |
| Year published | 2012-02-13 |
| Number of pages | 404 |
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