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Record Nr.

UNINA9910789842803321

Titolo

Hegel and the infinite [[electronic resource] ] : religion, politics, and dialectic / / edited by Slavoj Zizek, Clayton Crockett, and Creston Davis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Columbia University Press, c2011

ISBN

1-283-07274-2

9786613072740

0-231-51287-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (256 p.)

Collana

Insurrections

Altri autori (Persone)

ŽižekSlavoj

CrockettClayton <1969->

DavisCreston

Disciplina

193

Soggetti

Philosophy and religion - History - 19th century

Political science - History - 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1: Is Confession the Accomplishment of Recognition?; 2: Rereading Hegel; 3: The Perversity of the Absolute, the Perverse Core of Hegel, and the Possibility of Radical Theology; 4: Hegel in America; 5: Infinite Restlessness; 6: Between Finitude and Infinity; 7: The Way of Despair; 8: The Weakness of Nature; 9: Disrupting Reason; 10: Finite Representation, Spontaneous Thought, and the Politics of an Open-Ended Consummation; 11: Hegel and Shitting; Contributors; Index of Names

Sommario/riassunto

Catherine Malabou, Antonio Negri, John D. Caputo, Bruno Bosteels, Mark C. Taylor, and Slavoj Žižek join seven others-including William Desmond, Katrin Pahl, Adrian Johnston, Edith Wyschogrod, and Thomas A. Lewis-to apply Hegel's thought to twenty-first-century philosophy, politics, and religion. Doing away with claims that the evolution of thought and history is at an end, these thinkers safeguard Hegel's innovations against irrelevance and, importantly, reset the distinction of secular and sacred.These original contributions focus on Hegelian analysis and the transformative