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Intensities : philosophy, religion, and the affirmation of life / edited by Katharine Sarah Moody, Steven Shakespeare.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Intensities: Contemporary Continental Philosophy of Religion
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Life.
- Meaning (Philosophy).
- Spirituality.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (198 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book breaks new ground in religious and philosophical thinking on the concept of life. It captures a moment in which such thinking is regaining its force and attraction for scholars, and the relevance of thought to social, cultural, political and religious dilemmas about how and why to live. Bringing together original contributions by highly distinguished authors in the field of continental philosophy of religion, including John D. Caputo, Pamela Sue Anderson, Philip Goodchild, Alison Martin and Don Cupitt, this book has a distinctiveness based on its refusal to sit easily within either s
- Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Irritating Life; Section One: The Politics of Life; 1 Believing in This Life: French Philosophy after Beauvoir; 2 Agamben, Girard and the Life that Does Not Live; 3 Entangled Fidelities: Reassembling the Human; 4 Grace Jantzen: Violence, Natality and the Social; Section Two: Life and the Limits of Thinking; 5 Bodies without Flesh: Overcoming the Soft Gnosticism of Incarnational Theology; 6 From World to Life: Wittgenstein's Social Vitalism and the Possibility of Philosophy
- 7 'A Weariness of the Flesh': Towards a Theology of Boredom and FatigueSection Three: Life and Spirituality; 8 The Spirituality of Human Life; 9 Two Philosophies of Life; 10 Thinking and Life: On Philosophy as a Spiritual Exercise; Afterword; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-317-11482-5
- 1-315-58917-6
- 1-283-73884-8
- 1-4094-4330-2
- 9781315589176
- OCLC:
- 817560372
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