Return statements : the return of religion in contemporary philosophy / Gregg Lambert.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lambert, Gregg, 1961- author.

Series:

Incitements

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Postsecularism.

Secularism.

Religion--Philosophy.

Religion.

Physical Description:

vii, 247 pages ; 19 cm.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2016.

Summary:

Gregg Lambert examines the internal relationship between the return of overtly religious themes in contemporary philosophy over the past decade and another sense of the 'post-secular' turn that has been taking place globally following the events of 9/11. He asks how these two 'returns to religion' can be taking place simultaneously without appearing as the same horizon of the West viewed from opposing perspectives of the globe? Through a series of reflections on the 'return statements' performed by contemporary philosophers including Alain Badiou, John D. Caputo, Jacques Derrida and Jean-Luc Nancy, Lambert discovers the unique sense of the term 'religion' that belongs exclusively to our contemporary perspective - a sense whose bio-political meaning is both unprecedented and foreboding. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Sapere Aude? 19

2 "What's Love Got to do With it?" 38

3 Noli mi tangere! 67

4 "... tacitly, the caress, in a word, the Christian body" 83

5 Philosophical Fundamentalism Today 115

6 Living and Dying Under the Double Horizon of the Death of God 134

7 The Unprecedented Return of St. Paul 160

8 The Coming Community? 184.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-234) and index.

ISBN:

9781474413916

1474413919

OCLC:

928607992