Re-treating Religion : : Deconstructing Christianity with Jean-Luc Nancy / / ed. by Alena Alexandrova.

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• MitwirkendeR: Alexandrova, Alena,; Calabró, Daniela,; De Vries, Hent,; De Wit, Theo W. A.,; Devisch, Ignaas,; Ferrari, Federico,; James, Ian,; Kesel, Marc De,; Lisse, Michel,; Loose, Donald,; Manchev, Boyan,; Nancy, Jean-Luc,; O’Byrne, Anne,; Peperstraten, Frans Van,; Raffoul, François,; Rooden, Aukje Van,; Ten Kate, Laurens,; Van Rooden, Aukje,; Vandeputte, Kathleen,
• HerausgeberIn: Alexandrova, Alena,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2022]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (404 p.)

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 “turn” is 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-deconstruction” of the Western world. The book includes discussion with Nancy himself, who contributes a substantial “Preamble” and 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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations for Works by Jean-Luc Nancy -- Preamble: In the Midst of the World; or, Why Deconstruct Christianity? -- Re-opening the Question of Religion: Dis-enclosure of Religion and Modernity in the Philosophy of Jean-Luc Nancy -- PART I Christianity and Secularization; or, How Are We to Think a Deconstruction of Christianity? -- Intermezzo -- The Self-Deconstruction of Christianity -- Deconstruction or Destruction? Comments on Jean-Luc Nancy’s Theory of Christianity -- Sense, Existence, and Justice; or, How Are We to Live in a Secular World? -- Between All and Nothing The Affective Dimension of Political Bonds -- PART II Monotheism, God -- Intermezzo -- Winke: Divine Topoi in Nancy, Ho¨lderlin, and Heidegger -- God Passing By Presence and Absence in Monotheism and Atheism -- Thinking Alterity—In One or Two? Nancy’s Christianity Compared with Lyotard’s Judaism -- The Excess of Reason and the Return of Religion: Transcendence of Christian Monotheism in Nancy’s Dis-enclosure -- PART III Creation, Myth, Sense, Poiēsis -- Intermezzo -- ‘‘My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken me?’’ Demythologized Prayer; or, the Poetic Invocation of God -- Literary Creation, Creation ex Nihilo -- The God Between -- The Immemorial The Deconstruction of Christianity, Starting from ‘‘Visitation: Of Christian Painting’’ -- PART IV Body, Image, Incarnation, Art -- Intermezzo -- Incarnation and Infinity -- Ontology of Creation. The Onto-aisthetics of Jean-Luc Nancy -- Distinct Art -- The Dis-enclosure of Contemporary Art: An Underpinning Work -- On Dis-enclosure and Its Gesture, Adoration: A Concluding Dialogue with Jean-Luc Nancy -- Notes -- Contributors -- Index