The rebellious no : variations on a secular theology of language / Noelle Vahanian.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vahanian, Noëlle, 1969- author.

Series:

Perspectives in continental philosophy.

Perspectives in Continental Philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language and languages--Religious aspects.

Language and languages.

Language and languages--Philosophy.

Death of God theology.

Death of God.

Theology.

Postmodernism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (176 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Front matter

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

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-148) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780823256983

0823256987

9780823256976

0823256979

9780823261475

0823261476

9780823256969

0823256960

OCLC:

1080552071