In this Book
- Postmodernism and the Revolution in Religious Theory: Toward a Semiotics of the Event
- Book
- 2012
- Published by: University of Virginia Press
summary
While the academic study of religion has increased almost exponentially in the past fifty years, general theories of religion have been in significant decline. In his new book, Carl Raschke offers the first systematic exploration of how the postmodern philosophical theories of Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, Alain Badiou, and Slavoj iek have contributed significantly to the development of a theory of religion as a whole. The bold paradigm he uses to articulate the framework for a revolution in religious theory comes from semiotics—namely, the problem of the sign and the "singularity" or "event horizon" from which a sign is generated.
Table of Contents
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- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- pp. ix-x
- Introduction
- pp. 1-9
- Part II. SOURCES
- p. 87
- 6. Levinas and the Final À-dieu to Theology
- pp. 108-140
- 7. Deleuze and Nomadology
- pp. 141-164
- 8. Žižek and the Failure of the Subject
- pp. 165-183
- 9. Badiou and the Prospects for Theory
- pp. 184-202
Additional Information
ISBN
9780813933085
Related ISBN(s)
9780813933061, 9780813933078
MARC Record
OCLC
812924960
Pages
248
Launched on MUSE
2012-12-20
Language
English
Open Access
No