Research Catalog

Title

Return statements : the return of religion in contemporary philosophy / Gregg Lambert.

Author

Lambert, Gregg, 1961-

Publication

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2016]

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Details

Description

vii, 247 pages; 19 cm.

Summary

Gregg Lambert examines the internal relationship between the return of overtly religious themes in contemporary philosophy over the past decade and another sense of the 'post-secular' turn that has been taking place globally following the events of 9/11. He asks how these two 'returns to religion' can be taking place simultaneously without appearing as the same horizon of the West viewed from opposing perspectives of the globe? Through a series of reflections on the 'return statements' performed by contemporary philosophers including Alain Badiou, John D. Caputo, Jacques Derrida and Jean-Luc Nancy, Lambert discovers the unique sense of the term 'religion' that belongs exclusively to our contemporary perspective - a sense whose bio-political meaning is both unprecedented and foreboding.

Series Statement

Incitements

Uniform Title

Incitements.

Subject

• Postsecularism
• Secularism
• Religion > Philosophy
• Postsecularism
• Secularism

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-234) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Machine generated contents note: [1]. Sapere Aude? -- [2]. "What's Love Got to do With it?" -- [3]. Noli mi tangere! -- [4]. "... tacitly, the caress, in a word, the Christian body" -- [5]. Philosophical Fundamentalism Today -- [6]. Living and Dying Under the Double Horizon of the Death of God -- [7]. The Unprecedented Return of St. Paul -- [8]. The Coming Community?.

ISBN

• 9781474413916
• 1474413919

OCLC

928607992

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library