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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811886103321

Autore

Watkin Christopher

Titolo

Difficult atheism : post-theological thinking in Alain Badiou, Jean-Luc Nancy and Quentin Meillassoux / / Christopher Watkin [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2011

ISBN

0-7486-7179-X

1-283-22168-3

9786613221681

0-7486-4630-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 281 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Crosscurrents

Disciplina

211/.8

Soggetti

Atheism

Philosophy, French - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographic references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Atheisms Today -- The God of Metaphysics -- The God of the Poets -- Difficult Atheism -- Beyond A/theism? Quentin Meillassoux -- The Politics of the Post-Theological I: Justifying the Political -- The Politics of the Post-Theological II: Justice -- General Conclusion: How to Follow an 'Atheism' That Never Was.

Sommario/riassunto

Difficult Atheism shows how contemporary French philosophy is rethinking the legacy of the death of God in ways that take the debate beyond the narrow confines of atheism into the much broader domain of post-theological thinking. Christopher Watkin argues that Alain Badiou  Jean-Luc Nancy and Quentin Meillassoux each elaborate a distinctive approach to the post-theological  but that each approach still struggles to do justice to the death of God.