Baudrillard and theology / James Walters.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Walters, James.

Series:

Philosophy and theology (London, England)

Philosophy and theology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Theology.

Baudrillard, Jean, 1929-2007.

Baudrillard, Jean.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (193 p.)

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : T&T Clark, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Jean Baudrillard was one of the foremost intellectual figures of the late twentieth century and his work is currently reaching a new prominence in the English-speaking world. Known as the high priest of postmodernity, Baudrillard never directly addressed theological concerns. However, his provocative analysis of the changing nature of reality, subjectivity and agency is of increasing importance to contemporary theology. Furthermore, his mode of cultural analysis (which he himself describes as mystical) provides fruitful possibilities for theological reasoning in the post-idealist world he desc

Contents:

Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Overcoming the real; PART ONE; Chapter 1: Signs, systems and '68; Baudrillard's context: Philosophical; Baudrillard's context: Political and economic; Moving on from Marx; Chapter 2: Simulation and the hyperreal; The order of simulacra; The metaphysics of the code; The implosion of religion; Chapter 3: Exchange: Economic and symbolic; Fatality and totality; Symbolic exchange; Seduction; Chapter 4: Life after God; Impossible exchange; The age of the non-event; Alterity in a whitewashed life; Part TWO

Chapter 5: Sacraments and simulacraSign and symbol; The ceremony of the world; Sacramental singularities; Chapter 6: Eschatology, terrorism and death; The illusion of the end; Taking charge of death; Realized eschatology: Singularity and kairòs; Chapter 7: Beyond good and evil; The relentless positivity of the global; Globalization and the good; Chapter 8: Barred bodies; Body as sacred consumer object; The barred body; From sexual difference to transsexuality; Sacramental body; Chapter 9: Fragments in the desert; The desert of the real; Fragments; Poetic resolution

Chapter 10: Radical othernessRadical thought; From self to other; God of nothing; Theological hyperreality; Notes; Introduction; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Chapter 5; Chapter 6; Chapter 7; Chapter 8; Chapter 9; Chapter 10; Bibliography; Works by Baudrillard; Other works; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-13352-7

9786613806109

0-567-07335-1

OCLC:

799766068