Rebellious No

Variations on a Secular Theology of Language

AvNoëlle Vahanian

Inbunden, Engelska, 2014

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Beskrivning

This book aims to renew theological thinking by extending and radicalizing an iconoclastic and existentialist mode of thought. It proposes a theology whose point of departure assumes and accepts the critiques of religion launched by Nietzsche, Freud, Marx, and Feuerbach but nevertheless takes theological desire seriously as a rebellious force working within, but against, an anthropomorphic, phallogocentric worldview.As a theology of language, it does not claim any privileged access to some transcendent divine essence or ground of Being. On the contrary, for Noelle Vahanian theology is a strictly secular discourse, like any other discourse, but aware of its limitations and wary of great promises—its own included. Its faith is that this secular theological desire can be a force against the constitutive indifference of thought, and it is a meditative act of rebellion. Aphoristic instead of argumentative, this book offers an original and constructive engagement with such seminal issues as indifference, belief, madness, and love.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2014-03-03
Mått:152 x 229 x 20 mm
Vikt:396 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
Antal sidor:176
Förlag:Fordham University Press
ISBN:9780823256952

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Religion: allmänt inom Filosofi och religion

Mer om författaren

Noëlle Vahanian is a professor of philosophy in the Social Justice and Civic Engagement program at Lebanon Valley College, in Annville, Pennsylvania. She is the author of Language, Desire, and Theology: A Genealogy of the Will to Speak (2003), The Rebellious No: Variations on a Secular Theology of Language (Fordham University Press, 2014), and co-author of An Insurrectionist Manifesto: Four New Gospels for a Radical Politics (2016). Her current research engages the problem of genocide and its relevance to philosophy of religion.

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"The Rebellious No is an important and original contribution to contemporary theological thinking. Vahanian's secular theology of language is intense, meditative and brilliant, and culminates in a profound vision of how rebellion and love are inseparable from each other." -- -Clayton Crockett University of Central Arkansas "Noelle Vahanian's writing style is pithy, playful, allusive, and often entertaining." -- -James H. Olthuis Institute for Christian Studies "God and Being are both words without referents. What is, then, the difference between them ? God is only a version of Being (Heidegger). God is "otherwise than Being" (Levinas). God survives the death of its Being (Vahanian). Such is the profound paradox of "secular theology". A fascinating achievement." -- -Catherine Malabou author of The New Wounded: From Neurosis to Brain Damage "The sincerity within Vahanian's style speaks as clearly to the reader as does the style of her meditations on the difficulties of sincerity." -- -Joshua Ramey Haverford College

Innehållsförteckning

Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Milk of My Tears 2. The Law of the Indifferent Middle 3. Great Explanation 4. Madness and Civilization: The Paradox of a False Dichotomy 5. Two Ways to Believe 6. Rebellious Desire and the Real Within the Limits of the Symbolic Alone 7. Counting Weakness, Countering Power: The Theopolitics of Catherine Keller 8. Counter-Currents: Theology and the Future of Continental Philosophy of Religion 9. I Love You More Than a Big Sheriff Notes Index