Re-treating religion : deconstructing Christianity with Jean-Luc Nancy / edited by Alena Alexandrova, Ignaas Devisch, Laurens ten Kate, and Aukje van Rooden ; with a preamble and concluding dialogue by Jean-Luc Nancy.

New York : Fordham University Press, 2012.

xvi, 400 pages ; 23 cm.

1st edition.

Preamble: In the midst of the world, or, why deconstruct Christianity? / Jean-Luc Nancy -- Re-opening the question of religion : dis-enclosure of religion and modernity in the philosophy of Jean-Luc Nancy / Alena Alexandrova, Ignaas Devisch, Laurens ten Kate, and Aukje van Rooden -- pt. I. Christianity and secularization, or, how are we to think a deconstruction of Christianity? Intermezzo / Ignaas Devisch -- The self-deconstruction of Christianity / François Raffoul -- Deconstruction or destruction? Comments on Jean-Luc Nancy's theory of Christianity / Marc De Kesel -- Sense, existence, and justice, or, how are we to live in a secular world? / Ignaas Devisch an Kathleen Vandeputte -- Between all and nothing : the affective dimension of political bonds / Theo W.A. de Wit -- pt. II. Monotheism, God. Intermezzo / Laurens ten Kate -- Winke : divine topoi in Nancy, Hölderlin, and Heidegger / Hent de Vries -- God passing by : presence and absence in monotheism and atheism / Laurens ten Kate -- Thinking alterity -- in one or two? Nancy's Christianity compared with Lyotard's Judaism / Frans van Peperstraten --

The excess of reason and the return of religion : transcendence of Christian monotheism in Nancy's Dis-enclosure / Donald Loose -- pt. III. Creation, myth, sense, poiēsis. Intermezzo / Aukje van Rooden -- "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" Demythologized prayer, or, the poetic invocation of God / Aukje van Rooden -- Literary creation, creation ex nihilo / Michel Lisse -- The God between / Anne O'Byrne -- The immemorial : the deconstruction of Christianity, starting from "Visitation: of Christian painting" / Daniela Calabrò -- pt. IV. Body, image, incarnation, art. Intermezzo / Alena Alexandrova -- Incarnation and infinity / Ian James -- Ontology of creation : the onto-aisthetics of Jean-Luc Nancy / Boyan Manchev -- Distinct art / Alena Alexandrova -- The dis-enclosure of contemporary art : an underpinning work / Federico Ferrari -- On dis-enclosure and its gesture, adoration : a concluding dialogue with Jean-Luc Nancy / Jean-Luc Nancy and the editors.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-383) and index.

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