Between Faith and Belief : Toward a Contemporary Phenomenology of Religious Life

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schrijvers, Joeri.

Contributor:

Schrijvers, Joeri, Contributor.

Schrijvers, Joeri, Editor.

Series:

SUNY series in Theology and Continental Thought

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religious life.

Philosophy and religion.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (400 p.)

Place of Publication:

Ithaca : State University of New York Press, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

What is to be done at the end of metaphysics? Joeri Schrijvers's contemporary philosophy of religion takes up this question, originally posed by Reiner Schürmann and central to continental philosophy. The book navigates the work of thinkers who have addressed such metaphysical concerns, including Martin Heidegger, Emmanuel Levinas, Jean-Luc Nancy, Jean-Luc Marion, Peter Sloterdijk, Ludwig Binswanger, Jacques Derrida, and more recently John D. Caputo, Mary-Jane Rubenstein, and Martin Hägglund. Notably, Schrijvers engages both those who would deconstruct Christianity and those who remain within this tradition, offering an option that is "between:" between Christianity and atheism, between progressive and conservative, between faith and belief. Ultimately, Schrijvers confronts the end of metaphysics with a phenomenology of love and community, arguing for the radical primacy of togetherness.

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; General Introduction: Toward A Contemporary Phenomenology of Religious Life; The Many Faces of Atheism Today; "Against the Return of Religion: A Critique of the Religious Origins of our Political Concepts": Jean-Luc Nancy and Peter Sloter; "A Universalizing Faith at the Origin of the Social Bond: Postsecularism As a Secularizing Task": Ludwig Binswanger; "A Recognition of the Elementary Faith Underlying the Secularizing Task": John D. Caputo; Conclusion: Toward A Contemporary Phenomenology of Religious Life; Part 1 Without

Chapter 1 Anarchistic Tendencies in Continental Philosophy"What is to be done at the end of metaphysics?"; Heideggerian Anarchy; The "Practical a Priori"; The Event and the Phenomenology of Presencing; Technology, the Closure of Metaphysics, and Anarchic Praxis; Levinasian Anarchy; Identities: Totality and Hegemony; Differences: With/out principle; Derridean Anarchy; Conclusion: In Praise of Everydayness; Chapter 2 What Comes after Christianity?; The End of Metaphysics and the Deconstruction of Christianity; Thinking the World: Between Heidegger and Levinas; The Deconstruction of Christianity

What One Inherits from Christianity: Our Christian ProvenanceThe Auto-Deconstruction of Christianity; Absentheism, or Why God Cannot Not Flee; The Space of an Incarnation: Deifying/Reifying the Deviance; Nancy's Exegesis of the Resurrection Story: Noli me Tangere and the Faith in Sense; Deconstructing Nancy with Derrida; On an Apocalyptical Tone in Nancy's Philosophy; Otherwise Than Metaphysics, or the Eclipse of Essence; Faith and/in Belief; Derrida and Nancy's Shorthands; Conclusion: What Comes after Christianity?; Chapter 3 Exercises in Religion I

How to Change Your Life: An Ontological Self-Help GroupOnce Again: Violence and Metaphysics; The De-suprematicization of the World: The Matrix of Monotheism; An Exhausted Matrix?; Conclusion: Sloterdijk and "The Legitimacy of Postmodernity"; Chapter 4 Exercises in Religion II; Modernity and the Emergence into History; Postmodern Life: Ascetic, Aesthetic, and Athletic Religion; Life, and Nothing but Life: The Liberation from the Matrix?; Changing Codes; Conclusion: Deconstructing Christianity?; Conclusion to Part 1; Part 2 Between; Chapter 5 In Defense of Deconstruction

How (Not) to Do Away With "The With"?Faith versus Belief Revisited; From "Is" to "Ought" (and Back Again); Religion without Religion versus Religion with Religion; Martin Hägglund's Radical Atheism: "infinite finitude" versus "finite infinity"; Mind the Gap! Of Unconditionals and Their Condition; Mary-Jane Rubenstein and Martin Hägglund; An Essay at Exteriority: Otherwise than Survival; One Never Knows: Il faut essayer; Conclusion: Begging to Differ; Chapter 6 Between Faith and Belief; The Event of Religion; Prayers, Tears, and Gnashing of Teeth: On Attempting to be an Atheist

Derrida as Natural Metaphysician: The Pervertibility of Pure Faith

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9781438460239

1438460236