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Re-Treating Religion: Deconstructing Christianity with Jean-Luc Nancy
Contributor(s): Alexandrova, Alena (Editor), Devisch, Ignaas (Author), Kate, Laurens Ten (Author)
ISBN: 0823234657     ISBN-13: 9780823234653
Publisher: Fordham University Press
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Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: February 2012
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BISAC Categories:
- Religion | Philosophy
- Philosophy | Religious
- Philosophy | Movements - Deconstruction
Dewey: 230
LCCN: 2011048557
Series: Perspectives in Continental Philosophy (Paperback Unnumbered)
Physical Information: 1.1" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (1.20 lbs) 404 pages
 
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One of the most complicated and ambiguous tendencies in contemporary western societies is the phenomenon referred to as the turn to religion.In philosophy, one of the most original thinkers critically questioning this turnis Jean-Luc Nancy. Re-treating Religion is the first volume to analyze his long-term project The Deconstruction of Christianity, especially his major statement of it in Dis-Enclosure.Nancy conceives monotheistic religion and secularization not as opposite worldviews that succeed each other in time but rather as springing from the same history. This history consists in a paradoxical tendency to contest one's own foundations-whether God, truth, origin, humanity, or rationality-as well as to found itself on the void of this contestation. Nancy calls this unique combination of self-contestation and self-foundation the self-deconstructionof the Western world.The book includes discussion with Nancy himself, who contributes a substantial Preambleand a concluding dialogue with the volume editors. The contributions follow Nancy in tracing the complexities of Western culture back to the persistent legacy of monotheism, in order to illuminate the tensions and uncertainties we face in the twenty-first century

Contributor Bio(s): Devisch, Ignaas: - Ignaas Devisch is Professor in Social Philosophy, Ethics and Philosophy of Medicine at University College Arteveldehogeschool and Ghent University, Belgium.Kate, Laurens Ten: -

Laurens ten Kate holds degrees in theology and philosophy. His dissertation on Bataille's
modern theory of the "sacred" (1994) was presented to the Catholic Theological University, Utrecht, where he taught philosophy of culture for several years. He publishes in the fields of Christian history and theology, art and literary theory, philosophy of culture, and religious studies. In 2001 he published Flight of the Gods: Philosophical Perspectives on Negative Theology in collaboration with Ilse N. Bulhof. Recently, he published as coordinating editor Re-treating Religion: Deconstructing Christianity with Jean-Luc Nancy (2012).
Ten Kate was acquiring editor of philosophy at Boom Publishers, Amsterdam, and senior researcher at the Faculty of Theology of the Free University of Amsterdam. He is currently an associate professor in the philosophy of religion and theology at the University of Humanities, Utrecht. He also teaches at the International School of Philosophy in Leusden, the Netherlands.

Rooden, Aukje Van: - Aukje van Rooden is a research associate at the University of Utrecht.Nancy, Jean-Luc: - Jean-Luc Nancy is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Université Marc Bloch, Strasbourg. His wide-ranging thought is developed in many books, including Expectation: Philosophy, Literature; The Possibility of a World; The Banality of Heidegger; The Disavowed Community; and, with Adèle Van Reeth, Coming (all Fordham).Alexandrova, Alena: - Alena Alexandrova is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design, University of Bergen.Van Rooden, Aukje: - Aukje van Rooden is a research associate at the University of Utrecht.Ten Kate, Laurens: - Laurens ten Kate holds degrees in theology and philosophy. His dissertation on Bataille's modern theory of the "sacred" (1994) was presented to the Catholic Theological University, Utrecht, where he taught philosophy of culture for several years. He publishes in the fields of Christian history and theology, art and literary theory, philosophy of culture, and religious studies. In 2001 he published Flight of the Gods: Philosophical Perspectives on Negative Theology in collaboration with Ilse N. Bulhof. Recently, he published as coordinating editor Re-treating Religion: Deconstructing Christianity with Jean-Luc Nancy (2012). Ten Kate was acquiring editor of philosophy at Boom Publishers, Amsterdam, and senior researcher at the Faculty of Theology of the Free University of Amsterdam. He is currently an associate professor in the philosophy of religion and theology at the University of Humanities, Utrecht. He also teaches at the International School of Philosophy in Leusden, the Netherlands.