A Theology of Failure : : Žižek against Christian Innocence / / Marika Rose.

Everyone agrees that theology has failed; but the question of how to understand and respond to this failure is complex and contested. Against both the radical orthodox attempt to return to a time before the theology's failure and the deconstructive theological attempt to open theology up to the...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2019]
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Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
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Physical Description:1 online resource (240 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction: failing
  • 1. Ontology and desire in dionysius the areopagite
  • 2. Apophatic theology and its vicissitudes
  • 3. The death drive: from Freud to žižek
  • 4. The gift and violence
  • 5. Divine violence as trauma
  • 6. Mystical theology and the four discourses
  • Conclusion: theology as failure
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index