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Author Nancy, Jean-Luc, author

Title Adoration : the deconstruction of Christianity II / Jean-Luc Nancy ; translated by John McKeane
Edition 1st edition
Published New York : Fordham University Press, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (x, 117 pages)
Series Perspectives in continental philosophy
Perspectives in continental philosophy.
Contents There is no sense of sense : that is worthy of adoration -- In the midst of the world -- Mysteries and virtues -- Complements, supplements, fragments
Summary Adoration is the second volume of the Deconstruction of Christianity, following Dis-Enclosure. The first volume attempted to demonstrate why it is necessary to open reason up not to a religious dimension but to one transcending reason as we have been accustomed to understanding it; the term ""adoration"" attempts to name the gesture of this dis-enclosed reason. Adoration causes us to receive ignorance as truth: not a feigned ignorance, perhaps not even a ""nonknowledge, "" nothing that would attempt to justify the negative again, but the simple, naked truth that there is nothing in the place of
Notes Originally published in French as L'Adoration: déconstruction du christianisme 2
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes English
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Subject Deconstruction.
Philosophy and religion -- History -- 20th century
Christianity -- Philosophy -- History -- 20th century
Deconstructivism (Architecture)
Christianity -- history
Religious Philosophies -- history
Deconstructivist.
deconstruction (theory)
RELIGION -- Philosophy.
Christianity -- Philosophy
Deconstruction
Philosophy and religion
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author McKeane, John, 1984- translator.
ISBN 0823246353
9780823246359
9780823242979
0823242978
0823242986
9780823242986
082324296X
9780823242962
Other Titles Adoration. English