Dis-Enclosure The Deconstruction of Christianity

Name: Dis-Enclosure The Deconstruction of Christianity
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ISBN: 9780823228362

ISBN-10: 0823228363

ISBN-13: 9780823228362

Edition: 3rd

Authors: Jean-Luc Nancy, Bettina Bergo, Gabriel Malenfant, Michael Smith

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This book is a profound and eagerly anticipated investigation into what is left of a monotheistic religious spiritnotably, a minimalist faith that is neither confessional nor credulous. Articulating this faith as works and as an objectless hope, Nancy deconstructs Christianity in search of the historical and reflective conditions that provided its initial energy. Working through Blanchot and Nietzsche, re-reading Heidegger and Derrida, Nancy turns to the Epistle of Saint James rather than those of Saint Paul, discerning in it the primitive essence of Christianity as hope. The religion that provided the exit from religion, as he terms Christianity, consists in the announcement of an end. It…

Book details

Edition: 3rd
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Publication date: 4/1/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 200
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English



Translators' Foreword


Opening


Atheism and Monotheism


A Deconstruction of Monotheism


The Judeo-Christian (on Faith)


A Faith That Is Nothing at All


An Experience at Heart


Verbum caro factum


The Name God in Blanchot


Blanchot's Resurrection


Consolation, Desolation


On a Divine Wink


An Exempting from Sense


"Prayer Demythified"


The Deconstruction of Christianity


Dis-Enclosure



Far from Substance: Whither and to What Point?



Notes