The Religious - (Blackwell Readings in Continental Philosophy) by John D Caputo (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><i>The Religious</i> offers landmark texts from Kierkegaard, Heidegger, Levinas, Derrida, and Irigaray, excerpts from the famous debate between Jean-Luc Marion and Dominique Janicaud, and ten original selections, some of which include coverage of feminist theology.<p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>This impressive collection takes its lead from the question - Who comes after the subject? - posed by Jean-Luc Nancy some years ago and responds to similar questions of Who comes after the God of metaphysics? and What becomes of God and of religious faith after the 'first cause' has been shown the door?<br /> <p>To answer these questions, <i>The Religious</i> offers landmark texts from Kierkegaard, Heidegger, Levinas, Derrida, and Irigaray, excerpts from the famous debate between Jean-Luc Marion and Dominique Janicaud, and ten original selections, some of which include coverage of feminist theology.<br /> </p> <p>This volume is an ideal text for advanced undergraduates and graduate students in the philosophy of religion.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>In this collection, the most innovative contemporary continental philosophers speak out about the ways in which religion must be rethought after the end of metaphysics. Can phenomenology in an age of the hyperreal provide an account of what cannot be seen? Is it possible to forge a link between the death of the modern subject and the question of God? Challenging theological complacency, these rich and complex essays do not simply discuss the demise of ontotheology but reinvigorate its classical issues by seeing them in the light of otherness, interruption, and sexual difference. <i>Edith Wyschogrod, Rice University.</i> <br /> <p>An indespensable collection for current poststructuralist and postmodern philosophical and theological discussions. <i>Religious Studies Review, Vol 29, October 2003</i></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>John D. Caputo</b>, the David R. Cook Professor of Philosophy at Villanova University. He is the author of numerous books on continental philosophy and religion, including <i>On Religion </i>(2001), M<i>ore Radical Hermeneutics </i>(2000), <i>God, the Gift, and Postmodernism</i> (1999, co-edited with Michael J. Scanlon), <i>The Prayers and Tears of Jacques Derrida</i> (1997), and<i> Deconstruction in a Nutshell: A Conversation with Jacques Derrida</i> (1997).
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