Dis-Enclosure
Title | Dis-Enclosure PDF eBook |
Author | Jean-Luc Nancy |
Publisher | Fordham Univ Press |
Pages | 203 |
Release | 2009-08-25 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0823228371 |
From one of France’s leading contemporary thinkers, “an astutely reasoned philosophical text, offering a revolutionary analysis of theistic religion” (The Midwest Book Review). This book is a profound and eagerly anticipated investigation into what is left of a monotheistic religious spirit—notably, a minimalist faith that is neither confessional nor credulous. Articulating this faith as works and as an objectless hope, Nancy deconstructs Christianity in search of the historical and reflective conditions that provided its initial energy. Working through Blanchot and Nietzsche, re-reading Heidegger and Derrida, Nancy turns to the Epistle of Saint James rather than those of Saint Paul, discerning in it the primitive essence of Christianity as hope. The “religion that provided the exit from religion,” as he terms Christianity, consists in the announcement of an end. It is the announcement that counts, however, rather than any finality. In this announcement there is a proximity to others and to what was once called parousia. But parousia is no longer presence; it is no longer the return of the Messiah. Rather, it is what is near us and does not cease to open and to close, a presence deferred yet imminent. In a demystified age where we are left with a vision of a self-enclosed world—in which humans are no longer mortals facing an immortal being, but entities whose lives are accompanied by the time of their own decline—parousia stands as a question. Can we venture the risk of a decentered perspective, such that the meaning of the world can be found both inside and outside, within and without our so-immanent world?
Transforming Encounters and Critical Reflection: African Thought, Critical Theory, and Liberation Theology in Dialogue
Title | Transforming Encounters and Critical Reflection: African Thought, Critical Theory, and Liberation Theology in Dialogue PDF eBook |
Author | Justin Sands |
Publisher | MDPI |
Pages | 179 |
Release | 2018-12-04 |
Genre | Electronic books |
ISBN | 3038971510 |
This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue "Transforming Encounters and Critical Reflection: African Thought, Critical Theory, and Liberation Theology in Dialogue" that was published in Religions
Between Philosophy and Theology
Title | Between Philosophy and Theology PDF eBook |
Author | Lieven Boeve |
Publisher | Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |
Pages | 254 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9781409400608 |
Long past the time when philosophers from different perspectives had joined the funeral procession that declared the death of God, a renewed interest has arisen in regard to the questions of God and religion in philosophy. This book brings some of these philosophical views together to present an overview of the philosophical scene in its dealings with religion, but also to move beyond the outsider's perspective. Reflecting on these philosophical interpretations from a fundamental theological perspective, the authors discover in what way these interpretations can challenge an understanding of today's faith.
The Survey
Title | The Survey PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 844 |
Release | 1923 |
Genre | Charities |
ISBN |
Embodiment
Title | Embodiment PDF eBook |
Author | Dr David Jasper |
Publisher | Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |
Pages | 247 |
Release | 2014-03-28 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1472410548 |
This book examines a number of landmark shifts in our account of the relationship between human and divine existence, as reflected through the perception of time and corporeal experience. Drawing together some of the best scholars in the field, this book provides a representative cross-section of influential trends in the philosophy of religion (e.g. phenomenology, existential thought, Biblical hermeneutics, deconstruction) that have shaped our understanding of the body in its profane and sacred dimensions as site of conflicting discourses on presence and absence, subjectivity and the death of the subject, mortality, resurrection and eternal life.
Deconstruction Without Derrida
Title | Deconstruction Without Derrida PDF eBook |
Author | Martin McQuillan |
Publisher | A&C Black |
Pages | 225 |
Release | 2012-07-26 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1441107940 |
An entirely original approach to deconstruction from a leading academic in the field.
Economics in Spirit and Truth
Title | Economics in Spirit and Truth PDF eBook |
Author | N. Wariboko |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 404 |
Release | 2014-11-06 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1137475501 |
Wariboko offers a critical-philosophical perspective on the logics and dynamics of finance capital in the twenty-first century in order to craft a model of the care of the soul that will enable citizens to not only better negotiate their economic existences and moral evaluations within it, but also resist its negative impact on social life.