Postmodernism and the revolution in religious theory : toward a semiotics of the event / Carl Raschke.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Raschke, Carl A.

Series:

Studies in religion and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Postmodernism--Religious aspects.

Postmodernism.

Semiotics--Religious aspects.

Semiotics.

Derrida, Jacques.

Badiou, Alain.

Žižek, Slavoj.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (248 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The bold paradigm he uses to articulate the framework for a revolution in religious theory comes from semiotics--namely, the problem of the sign and the "singularity" or "event horizon" from which a sign is generated.

Contents:

Religion and the semiotic revolution

Theory and the Deus evanescens: can there truly be a "science" of religion?

Postmodernism and the return of the "religious"

Radical religion in the "desert of the real"

Bataille and Altizer: the sacrificial background of postmodern religious theory

Levinas and the final à-dieu to theology

Deleuze and nomadology

Žižek and the failure of the subject

Badiou and the prospects for theory

Conclusion: toward a revival of religious theory.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613943651

9781283631204

1283631202

9780813933085

0813933080

OCLC:

812924960