Styles of Piety : Practicing Philosophy after the Death of God.
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Intro -- Title Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Violations -- Chapter 2: Fatherhood and the Promise of Ethics -- Chapter 3: Suffering Faith in Philosophy -- Chapter 4: Becoming Real-with Style -- Chapter 5: Morality without God -- Chapter 6: How Does Philosophy Become What It Is? -- Chapter 7: Genealogy, History, and the Work of Fiction -- Chapter 8: Tragic Dislocations -- Chapter 9: A Touch of Piety -- Chapter 10: The Prayers and Tears of Jacques Derrida -- Chapter 11: God: Poison or Cure? -- Chapter 12: Those Weeping Eyes, Those Seeing Tears -- Chapter 13: Derrida and Dante -- Chapter 14: Laughing, Praying, Weeping before God -- Notes -- Index -- Other Books in Fordham's Perspectives in Continental Philosophy Series.
The last half century has seen both attempts to demythologize the idea of God into purely secular forces and the resurgence of the language of God as indispensable to otherwise secular philosophers for describing experience. This volume asks whether piety might be a sort of irreducible human structure, functioning both inside and outside religion.
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