Alexandrova, Alena and Devisch, Ignaas and Kate, Laurens Ten
Re-treating Religion: Deconstructing Christianity with Jean-Luc Nancy
- New York Fordham University Press 2012
- 400p
- Perspectives in Continental Philosophy .
Preamble: In the Midst of the World: or, why Deconstruct Christianity ......1 Re-opening the Question of Religion : Dis-enclosure of Religion and Modernity in the Philosophy of Jean - Luc Nancy.....22 1. Christianity and Secularization ; or, How are we to think a Deconstruction of Christianity .............43 Intermezzo.........43 The Self-Deconstruction of Christianity ........46 The Self-Deconstruction of Christianity .......46 Deconstruction or Destruction ? Comments on Jean-Luc Nancy`s Theory of Christianity .......63 Sense, Existence, and Justice, or How are we to live in a Secular World .......80 Between All and Nothing: The Affective dimension of Political Bonds.......92 2. Monotheism, God Intermezzo......109 Winke: Divine Topoi in Nancy, Holderlin, and Heidegger......112 God Passing By : Pressence and Absence in Monotheism and Atheism ......132 Thinking Alterity-In one or Two ? Nancy`s Christianity compared with Lyotard`s Judaism ........145 The Excess of Reason and the Return of Religion: Transcendence of Christian Monotheism in Nancy`s Dis-enclosure .......163 3. Creation, Myth, Sense, Poiesis My God, My God, Why hast thou forsaken me Demythologized Prayer or the poetic invocation of God ........189 Literary Creation, Creation ex Nihilo.......203 The God Between .........203 The Immemorial: The Deconstruction of Christianity, Starting from Visitation of Christian Painting ........229 Incarnation and Infinity ..........246 Ontology of Creation: The Onto-Aisthetics of Jean-Luc Nancy ........261 Distinct Art ........275 The Dis-enclosure of Comtemporary art....291 ON Dis-Enclosure and its Gesture, Adoration ............304