ISBN:
9780813933061
,
9780813933078
Language:
English
Pages:
X, 235 S.
,
24 cm
Series Statement:
Studies in religion and culture
DDC:
210
Keywords:
Derrida, Jacques
;
Badiou, Alain
;
Žižek, Slavoj
;
Derrida, Jacques
;
Badiou, Alain
;
Žižek, Slavoj
;
Semiotics Religious aspects
;
Postmodernism Religious aspects
;
Postmodernism Religious aspects
;
Semiotics Religious aspects
;
Religion
;
Theorie
;
Religionsphilosophie
;
Postmoderne
Abstract:
Religion and the semiotic revolution -- Theory and the Deus evanescens: can there truly be a "science" of religion? -- Postmodernism and the return of the "religious" -- Radical religion in the "desert of the real" -- Bataille and Altizer: the sacrificial background of postmodern religious theory -- Levinas and the final à-dieu to theology -- Deleuze and nomadology -- Žižek and the failure of the subject -- Badiou and the prospects for theory -- Conclusion: toward a revival of religious theory
Description / Table of Contents:
Religion and the semiotic revolution -- Theory and the Deus evanescens: can there truly be a "science" of religion? -- Postmodernism and the return of the "religious" -- Radical religion in the "desert of the real" -- Bataille and Altizer: the sacrificial background of postmodern religious theory -- Levinas and the final à-dieu to theology -- Deleuze and nomadology -- Žižek and the failure of the subject -- Badiou and the prospects for theory -- Conclusion: toward a revival of religious theory.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-227) and index
