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1 online resource (332 pages) |
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Perspectives in Continental Philosophy |
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Perspectives in continental philosophy.
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| Contents |
Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Translators' Foreword; Opening; Atheism and Monotheism; A Deconstruction of Monotheism; The Judeo-Christian (on Faith); A Faith That Is Nothing at All; An Experience at Heart; Verbum caro factum; The Name God in Blanchot; Blanchot's Resurrection; Consolation, Desolation; On a Divine Wink; An Exempting from Sense; "Prayer Demythified"; The Deconstruction of Christianity; Dis-Enclosure; Appendix: Far from Substance: Whither and to What Point?; Notes |
| Summary |
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 p |
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Print version record |
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Deconstruction.
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Philosophy and religion -- History -- 20th century
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Deconstructivism (Architecture)
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Deconstructivist.
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deconstruction (theory)
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Deconstruction
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Philosophy and religion
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History
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Bergo, Bettina
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Malenfant, Gabriel
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| ISBN |
9780823228379 |
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0823228371 |
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