Re-treating Religion : Deconstructing Christianity with Jean-Luc Nancy.

Re-treating Religion -- Series Board -- Contributors -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations for Works by Jean-Luc Nancy -- Preamble -- Why Christianity? -- Christian Atheism -- Not Even Atheism -- Israel-Islam -- One World, Two Dimensions -- With -- Re-opening the Question of Religion -- A Return to Religion? -- The Deconstruction of Monotheism and of Christianity -- The Deconstruction of Christianity: Project and Key Themes -- The Philosophical Context of Nancy's Project: Polemics, Differences, Connections -- About This Volume -- Christianity and Secularization -- or, How Are We to Think a Deconstruction of Christianity? -- Intermezzo -- The Self-Deconstruction of Christianity -- Thinking at the End of Christianity -- Deconstruction as Self-Deconstruction -- The Self-Deconstruction of Christianity, or God's Absentheism -- Deconstruction or Destruction? -- Christianity's Derridean Deconstruction -- Nancy's Approach to the Destruction of Christianity -- Deconstruction Constructing Christianity -- ''But That Is Not Our Purpose Here'' -- The Subject of Deconstruction -- Sense, Existence, and Justice -- or, How Are We to Live in a Secular World? -- The World from a Secular Perspective -- The Incommensurable -- The Day of Judgment -- Between All and Nothing -- An Ancient Value, Dissolving Like Smoke -- The Politics of Self-Sufficiency -- The Longing to Celebrate Community -- A Heteronymous Affect in Politics and Society -- The Secret We Share -- Monotheism, God -- Intermezzo -- Of Divine Places -- The Failing God: Heidegger's Reading of Ho ¨ lderlin -- The Topos of -- Back to Nancy -- '' What is God?'': The Question Questioned -- The -- of God: Nancy's Rethinking -- God Passing By -- The Mosaic Distinction, the Mosaic Connection -- Outside, Inside: Monotheism's Self-Deconstruction -- The Presence of Retreat, or How God Wants to Get Rid of God.

Passing By -- Thinking Alterity-In One or Two? -- Nancy on Composition -- Nancy on the Inadequation of Praxis -- The Compositeness of Praxis in Nancy -- Lyotard on Judaism and Christianity -- Lyotard on the Estrangement of -- No Conclusion -- The Excess of Reason and the Return of Religion -- Limits, Limitlessness, and the Problem of Delimitation -- Transcendence Without Return? -- The Absolute: An Excess of Christianity Modernity- Nancy and Kant -- Deconstruction, Disintegration, Fundamentalism -- Coda -- Creation, Myth, Sense, -- Intermezzo -- ''My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken me?'' -- The Absent God -- Prayer as a Poetic Gesture -- Adoration: The Bond and the Cut -- The Relic of Myth -- Literary Creation, Creation ex Nihilo -- The God Between -- Symbolic Being -- Being Poetically -- Conclusion -- The Immemorial -- About the Absence of Sense -- Of an ''Unheard-of'' Visitation -- '' Touching Without Touching'' -- Body, Image, Incarnation, Art -- Intermezzo -- Incarnation and Infinity -- Closure -- Opening -- Incarnation -- Infinity -- Ontology of Creation -- The Creation ex Nihilo of the World: An Ex-Nihilistic Ontology -- The Displacement of the Origin and the Failure of Messianic Logic -- The Modal Ontology of Creation -- The Creation of the Body -- The Finished Body of Creation -- The Matter of the World: Politics of Creation -- Distinct Art -- Invisibility, Indivisibility -- Creation ex Nihilo -- Representation -- Incarnation -- Visitation-Christianity as Painting -- The Dis-enclosure of Contemporary Art -- On Dis-enclosure and Its Gesture, Adoration -- On Religion: Its Retreat and Its Philosophical Re-treatment -- The Deconstruction of Christianity: Its Philosophical Sense and Relevance -- Living Together, Civil Religion, Adoration -- Self-Deconstruction Between Self-Postulation and Self- Criticism.

Self-Deconstruction as Self-Betrayal: The Essence of Monotheism? -- Deconstructing Christianity-What about Judaism and Islam? -- On the Word -- in a Deconstruction of Monotheism -- Deconstruction, Demythologization, and the Performativity of Myth: On Adoration and Exclamation -- God and Address -- Dis-enclosure of Religion, Dis-enclosure of Art -- Art Between Visibility and Invisibility: The Public and the Private -- Literature and Art Between the Exceptional and the Ordinary -- Creation and the Image Without Model -- Notes -- Contributors -- Alena Alexandrova -- Daniela Calabro` -- Ignaas Devisch -- Federico Ferrari -- Ian James -- Laurens ten Kate -- Marc De Kesel -- Michel Lisse -- Donald Loose -- Boyan Manchev -- Jean-Luc Nancy -- Anne O'Byrne -- Frans van Peperstraten -- Franc ¸ ois Raffoul -- Aukje van Rooden -- Kathleen Vandeputte -- Hent de Vries -- Theo W. A. de Wit -- Index.

One of the most complicated and ambiguous tendencies in contemporary Western societies is the phenomenon referred to as the Gturn to religion.G In philosophy, one of the most original thinkers critically questioning this GturnG is Jean-Luc Nancy. Re-treating Religion is the first volume to analyze his long-term project GThe Deconstruction of Christianity,G 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 oneGs own foundationsGwhether God, truth, origin, humanity, 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 Gself-deconstructionG of the Western world. The book includes discussion with Nancy himself, who contributes a substantial GPreambleG and a concluding dialogue with the volume editors. The contributions follow Nancy in tracing the complexities of Western culture back to the persistant legacy of monotheism, in order to illuminate the tensions and uncertainties we face in the twenty-first century.

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