Hope in a Secular Age

Deconstruction, Negative Theology, and the Future of Faith

AvDavid Newheiser

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

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This book argues that hope is the indispensable precondition of religious practice and secular politics. Against dogmatic complacency and despairing resignation, David Newheiser argues that hope sustains commitments that remain vulnerable to disappointment. Since the discipline of hope is shared by believers and unbelievers alike, its persistence indicates that faith has a future in a secular age. Drawing on premodern theology and postmodern theory, Newheiser shows that atheism and Christianity have more in common than they often acknowledge. Writing in a clear and engaging style, he develops a new reading of deconstruction and negative theology, arguing that (despite their differences) they share a self-critical hope. By retrieving texts and traditions that are rarely read together, this book offers a major intervention in debates over the place of religion in public life.

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Utgivningsdatum:2019-12-19
Mått:160 x 235 x 15 mm
Vikt:400 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:184
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781108498661

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Religion: allmänt inom Filosofi och religion

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David Newheiser is a Research Fellow in the Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry at Australian Catholic University, Melbourne. His work has appeared in The Journal of the American Academy of Religion, The Journal of Religious Ethics, and Theory, Culture & Society, and he is the editor of numerous collections, including Desire, Faith, and the Darkness of God (2015).

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'For David Newheiser, hope holds together relation and negation. Hope in a Secular Age explains what this means, drawing on Dionysius the Areopagite and Jacques Derrida and putting the constructive proposal that results in conversation with a range of important thinkers, from Mark Lilla to Giorgio Agamben. Offering important correctives to scholarship on Continental philosophy of religion, this book reframes the field by focusing on ethics rather than epistemology. Particularly exciting are little-known, unpublished, but quite revealing texts by Derrida that Newheiser unearthed and mobilizes to alter how we understand the relationship between deconstruction and negative theology.' Vincent Lloyd, Villanova University, Pennsylvania

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction; 1. Deconstruction: the need for negativity; 2. Negative theology: critique and commitment; 3. The discipline of hope; 4. Beyond indeterminacy and dogma; 5. Atheism and the future of faith; 6. Negative political theology; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.