The Rebellious No : : Variations on a Secular Theology of Language / / Noëlle Vahanian.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: Vahanian, Noëlle,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2014]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (176 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; 1 Milk of My Tears --; 2 The Law of the Indifferent Middle --; 3 Great Explanation --; 4 Madness and Civilization: The Paradox of a False Dichotomy --; 5 Two Ways to Believe --; 6 Rebellious Desire and the Real within the Limits of the Symbolic Alone --; 7 Counting Weakness, Countering Power: The Theopolitics of Catherine Keller --; 8 Counter-Currents: Theology and the Future of Continental Philosophy of Religion --; 9 I love you more than a big sheriff --; Notes --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780823256983; 9783110729030; 9783111189604
• DOI: 10.1515/9780823256983
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Noëlle Vahanian.

This book aims to renew theological thinking by extending and radicalizing an iconoclastic and existentialist mode of thought. It proposes a theology whose point of departure assumes and accepts the critiques of religion launched by Nietzsche, Freud, Marx, and Feuerbach but nevertheless takes theological desire seriously as a rebellious force working within, but against, an anthropomorphic, phallogocentric worldview.As a theology of language, it does not claim any privileged access to some transcendent divine essence or ground of Being. On the contrary, for Noelle Vahanian theology is a strictly secular discourse, like any other discourse, but aware of its limitations and wary of great promises—its own included. Its faith is that this secular theological desire can be a force against the constitutive indifference of thought, and it is a meditative act of rebellion. Aphoristic instead of argumentative, this book offers an original and constructive engagement with such seminal issues as indifference, belief, madness, and love.