Postmodernism and the Revolution in Religious Theory: Toward a Semiotics of the Event

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CONTENTS ■ Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 PART I: THE REVOLUTION OF THE SIGN 1 Religion and the Semiotic Revolution 13 2 Theory and the Deus Evanescens: Can There Truly Be a “Science” of Religion? 34 3 Postmodernism and the Return of the “Religious” 52 4 Radical Religion in the “Desert of the Real” 70 PART II: SOURCES 5 Bataille and Altizer: The Sacrificial Background of Postmodern Religious Theory 89 6 Levinas and the Final À-dieu to Theology 108 7 Deleuze and Nomadology 141 8 Žižek and the Failure of the Subject 165 9 Badiou and the Prospects for Theory 184 Conclusion: Toward a Revival of Religious Theory 203 Notes 213 Index 229 ...