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RE-Treating Religion

Deconstructing Christianity with Jean-Luc Nancy [Hardback]

by Alena Alexandrova, Aukje Van Rooden, Ignaas Devisch, Laurens ten Kate

Author
Alena Alexandrova
Book Format
Hardback
Publisher
Fordham University Press
Published
February 2012

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One of the most complicated and ambiguous tendencies in contemporary western societies is the phenomenon referred to as the turn to religion. In philosophy, one of the most original thinkers critically questioning this turnis Jean-Luc Nancy. "Re-treating Religion" is the first volume to analyze his long-term project. "The Deconstruction of Christianity", especially his major statement of it in "Dis-Enclosure". Nancy conceives monotheistic religion and secularization not as opposite worldviews that succeed each other in time but rather as springing from the same history. This history consists in a paradoxical tendency to contest one's own foundations - whether God, truth, origin, humanity, or rationality - as well as to found itself on the void of this contestation. Nancy calls this unique combination of self-contestation and self-foundation the self-deconstruction of the Western world. The book includes discussion with Nancy himself, who contributes a substantial Preamble and a concluding dialogue with the volume editors.The contributions follow Nancy in tracing the complexities of Western culture back to the persistent legacy of monotheism, in order to illuminate the tensions and uncertainties we face in the twenty-first century.