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Re-treating religion: deconstructing Christianity with Jean-Luc Nancy
Alena Alexandrova, Ignaas Devisch, Laurens ten Kate, Aukje van Rooden and Jean-Luc Nancy-
Frontmatter
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Preface (page xi)
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Abbreviations for Works by Jean-Luc Nancy (page xiii)
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Preamble: In the Midst of the World; or, Why Deconstruct Christianity? (Jean-Luc Nancy, page 1)
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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, page 22)
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PART I: CHRISTIANITY AND SECULARIZATION; OR, HOW ARE WE TO THINK A DECONSTRUCTION OF CHRISTIANITY?
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Intermezzo (Ignaas Devisch, page 43)
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The Self-Deconstruction of Christianity (François Raffoul, page 46)
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Deconstruction or Destruction? Comments on Jean-Luc Nancy's Theory of Christianity (Marc De Kesel, page 63)
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Sense, Existence, and Justice; or, How Are We to Live in a Secular World? (Ignaas Devisch and Kathleen Vandeputte, page 80)
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Between All and Nothing: The Affective Dimension of Political Bonds (Theo W.A. de Wit, page 92)
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PART II: MONOTHEISM, GOD
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Intermezzo (Laurens ten Kate, page 109)
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Winke: Divine Topoi in Nancy, Hölderlin, and Heidegger (Hent de Vries, page 112)
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God Passing By: Presence and Absence in Monotheism and Atheism (Laurens ten Kate, page 132)
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Thinking Alterity--In One or Two? Nancy's Christianity Compared with Lyotard's Judaism (Frans van Peperstraten, page 145)
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The Excess of Reason and the Return of Religion: Transcendence of Christian Monotheism in Nancy's Dis-enclosure (Donald Loose, page 163)
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PART III: CREATION, MYTH, SENSE, POIESIS
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Intermezzo (Aukje van Rooden, page 185)
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"My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken me?" Demythologized Prayer; or, the Poetic Invocation of God (Aukje van Rooden, page 189)
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Literary Creation, Creation ex Nihilo (Michel Lisse, page 203)
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The God Between (Anne O'Byrne, page 215)
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The Immemorial: The Deconstruction of Christianity, Starting from "Visitation: Of Christian Painting" (Daniela Calabrò, page 229)
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PART IV: BODY, IMAGE, INCARNATION, ART
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Intermezzo (Alena Alexandrova, page 243)
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Incarnation and Infinity (Ian James, page 246)
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Ontology of Creation: The Onto-aisthetics of Jean-Luc Nancy (Boyan Manchev, page 261)
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Distinct Art (Alena Alexandrova, page 275)
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The Dis-enclosure of Contemporary Art: An Underpinning Work (Federico Ferrari, page 291)
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On Dis-enclosure and Its Gesture, Adoration: A Concluding Dialogue with Jean-Luc Nancy (Jean-Luc Nancy and the Editors, page 304)
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Notes (page 345)
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Contributors (page 385)
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Index (page 389)
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Published: 2012
Publisher: Fordham University Press
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