9780823228362-0823228363-Dis-Enclosure: The Deconstruction of Christianity (Perspectives in Continental Philosophy)

Dis-Enclosure: The Deconstruction of Christianity (Perspectives in Continental Philosophy)

ISBN-13: 9780823228362
ISBN-10: 0823228363
Edition: 1
Author: Jean-Luc Nancy, Michael B. Smith, Gabriel Malenfant
Publication date: 2008
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Format: Paperback 200 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780823228362
ISBN-10: 0823228363
Edition: 1
Author: Jean-Luc Nancy, Michael B. Smith, Gabriel Malenfant
Publication date: 2008
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Format: Paperback 200 pages

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Dis-Enclosure: The Deconstruction of Christianity (Perspectives in Continental Philosophy) (ISBN-13: 9780823228362 and ISBN-10: 0823228363), written by authors Jean-Luc Nancy, Michael B. Smith, Gabriel Malenfant, was published by Fordham University Press in 2008. With an overall rating of 4.4 stars, it's a notable title among other Christian Books & Bibles (Religious, Philosophy) books. You can easily purchase or rent Dis-Enclosure: The Deconstruction of Christianity (Perspectives in Continental Philosophy) (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Christian Books & Bibles books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $1.12.

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This book is a profound and eagerly anticipated investigation into what is left of a monotheistic religious spirit―notably, a minimalist faith that is neither confessional nor credulous. Articulating this faith as works and as an objectless hope, Nancy deconstructs Christianity in search of the historical and reflective conditions that provided its initial energy. Working through Blanchot and Nietzsche, re-reading Heidegger and Derrida, Nancy turns to the Epistle of Saint James rather than those of Saint Paul, discerning in it the primitive essence of Christianity as hope. The “religion that provided the exit from religion,” as he terms Christianity, consists in the announcement of an end. It is the announcement that counts, however, rather than any finality. In this announcement there is a proximity to others and to what was once called parousia. But parousia is no longer presence; it is no longer the return of the Messiah. Rather, it is what is near us and does not cease to open and to close, a presence deferred yet imminent.In a demystified age where we are left with a vision of a self-enclosed world―in which humans are no longer mortals facing an immortal being, but entities whose lives are accompanied by the time of their own decline―parousia stands as a question. Can we venture the risk of a decentered perspective, such that the meaning of the world can be found both inside and outside, within and without our so-immanent world?The deconstruction of Christianity that Nancy proposes is neither a game nor a strategy. It is an invitation to imagine a strange faith that enacts the inadequation of life to itself. Our lives overflow the self-contained boundaries of their biological and sociological interpretations. Out of this excess, wells up a fragile, overlooked meaning that is beyond both confessionalism and humanism.
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