LEADER 03664nam 2200601 a 450 001 9910807251903321 005 20230802005332.0 010 $a1-282-13352-7 010 $a9786613806109 010 $a0-567-07335-1 035 $a(CKB)2550000000105076 035 $a(EBL)967757 035 $a(OCoLC)799766068 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000738737 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12299226 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000738737 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10689280 035 $a(PQKB)11595352 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC967757 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL967757 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10579585 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL380610 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000105076 100 $a20120723d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBaudrillard and theology /$fJames Walters 210 $aLondon ;$aNew York $cT&T Clark$dc2012 215 $a1 online resource (193 p.) 225 1 $aPhilosophy and theology 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-567-54395-1 311 $a0-567-55972-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aTitle 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 327 $aChapter 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 kairo?s; 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 327 $aChapter 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 330 $aJean Baudrillard was one of the foremost intellectual figures of the late twentieth century and his work is currently reaching a new prominence in the English-speaking world. Known as the high priest of postmodernity, Baudrillard never directly addressed theological concerns. However, his provocative analysis of the changing nature of reality, subjectivity and agency is of increasing importance to contemporary theology. Furthermore, his mode of cultural analysis (which he himself describes as mystical) provides fruitful possibilities for theological reasoning in the post-idealist world he desc 410 0$aPhilosophy and theology (London, England) 606 $aTheology 615 0$aTheology. 676 $a210.1 700 $aWalters$b James$0775999 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910807251903321 996 $aBaudrillard and theology$93983137 997 $aUNINA