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

• Autore: Vahanian Noëlle <1969->
• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Fordham University Press, , 2014; ©2014
• Edizione: First edition.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (176 p.)
• Disciplina: 210.1/4
• Soggetto topico: Language and languages - Religious aspects; Language and languages - Philosophy; Death of God theology; Death of God; Theology; Postmodernism
• Soggetto non controllato: Death of God; Secular Theology; Theology of Language
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The rebellious no
• ISBN: 0-8232-5698-7; 0-8232-5697-9; 0-8232-6147-6; 0-8232-5696-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910789261103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Perspectives in continental philosophy.