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Record Nr.

UNINA9910789261103321

Autore

Vahanian Noëlle <1969->

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Fordham University Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-8232-5698-7

0-8232-5697-9

0-8232-6147-6

0-8232-5696-0

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (176 p.)

Collana

Perspectives in Continental Philosophy

Disciplina

210.1/4

Soggetti

Language and languages - Religious aspects

Language and languages - Philosophy

Death of God theology

Death of God

Theology

Postmodernism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.