Between faith and belief : toward a contemporary phenomenology of religious life / [edited by] Joeri Schrijvers.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Schrijvers, Joeri, editor.

Series:

SUNY series in theology and continental thought

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religious life.

Philosophy and religion.

Physical Description:

xvii, 380 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, [2016]

Summary:

What is to be done at the end of metaphysics? Joeri Schrijvers's contemporary philosophy of religion takes up this question, originally posed by Reiner Schürmann and central to continental philosophy. The book navigates the work of thinkers who have addressed such metaphysical concerns, including Martin Heidegger, Emmanuel Levinas, Jean-Luc Nancy, Jean-Luc Marion, Peter Sloterdijk, Ludwig Binswanger, Jacques Derrida, and more recently John D. Caputo, Mary-Jane Rubenstein, and Martin Hägglund. Notably, Schrijvers engages both those who would deconstruct Christianity and those who remain within this tradition, offering an option that is "between:" between Christianity and atheism, between progressive and conservative, between faith and belief. Ultimately, Schrijvers confronts the end of metaphysics with a phenomenology of love and community, arguing for the radical primacy of togetherness. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part 1 Without

Chapter 1 Anarchistic Tendencies in Contemporary Philosophy: Reiner Schiirmann and the Hubris of Philosophy 29

"What is to be done at the end of metaphysics?" 29

Heideggerian Anarchy 30

Levinasian Anarchy 38

Derridean Anarchy 41

Conclusion: In Praise of Everydayness 43

Chapter 2 What Comes after Christianity? Jean-Luc Nancy's Deconstruction of Christianity 47

The End of Metaphysics and the Deconstruction of Christianity 47

Thinking the World: Between Heidegger and Levinas 50

The Deconstruction of Christianity 52

Nancys Exegesis of the Resurrection Story: Noli me Tangere and the Faith in Sense 69

Deconstructing Nancy with Derrida 72

Conclusion: What Comes after Christianity? 79

Chapter 3 Exercises in Religion I: Peter Sloterdijk and the Matrix of Monotheism 83

How to Change Your Life: An Ontological Self-Help Group 84

Once Again: Violence and Metaphysics 88

The De-suprematlcization of the World: The Matrix of Monotheism 90

An Exhausted Matrix? 94

Conclusion: Sloterdijk and "The Legitimacy of Postmodernity" 97

Chapter 4 Exercises in Religion II. Living with Exhaustion 101

Modernity and the Emergence into History 103

Postmodern Life: Ascetic, Aesthetic, and Athletic Religion 110

Life, and Nothing but Life: The Liberation from the Matrix? 115

Changing Codes 119

Conclusion: Deconstructing Christianiry? 122

Conclusion to Part 1 125

Part 2 Between

Chapter 5 In Defense of Deconstruction. John D. Caputo and His Critics 133

How (Not) to Do Away With "The With"? 136

Religion without Religion versus Religion with Religion 142

Mind the Gap! Of Unconditionals and Their Condition 151

Conclusion: Begging to Differ 161

Chapter 6 Between Faith and Belief: Derrida versus Caputo 165

The Event of Religion 165

Prayers, Tears, and Gnashing of Teeth: On Attempting to be an Atheist 169

Derrida as Natural Metaphysician: The Pervertibility of Pure Faith 174

The Aporia, and the Great Unknown: God 178

Conclusion: Between Faith and Belief 181

Chapter 7 Between Strong and Weak Theology: Of a Sacred Anarchy in Caputo and Marion 185

A Christian Reversal of Values 185

A Sacred Anarchy, or the Authority of Authorities 189

From Caputo to Marion: Abandoned to Love? 193

Conclusion: Between Phenomenology and Theology 204

Conclusion to Part 2 209

Facere Veritatem: The Primacy of Bad Conscience 209

Not Yet Rid of God? Of a Religion Not Quite without Religion 215

Part 3 Within

Chapter 8 Ludwig Binswanger's Phenomenology of Love 223

Greetings from Being 225

Phenomenology of Love 233

Toward an Ontology Incarnate: The Fullness of Being 237

Conclusion: Faith in Love 242

Chapter 9 The "Ends" of Love: Friendship, Death, and Care 245

Heidegger and Binswanger 245

The "Unfolding" of Love in the World: Toward a Liebende Sorge 249

Love, Language, and Community 255

Phenomenology of Friendship-The Death of Friends and Lovers 259

The Self between Love and World 264

Conclusion: Loving Life and Living Love 273

Chapter 10 From Love to Life (and Back Again) 275

The Knowledge of Love 275

Body and World: Onward and Upward 278

The Art of a Difficult Existence: Binswanger's Ibsen 279

Binswanger, Art, and the Phenomenology of Religious Life 284

Conclusion: From a Finite Life to the Infinity of Love 287

Conclusion to Part 3 291.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781438460215

143846021X

OCLC:

928023133