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Difficult atheism : post-theological thinking in Alain Badiou, Jean-Luc Nancy and Quentin Meillassoux / Christopher Watkin.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Crosscurrents (Edinburgh University Press)Publication details: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2011.Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 281 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780748646302
  • 0748646302
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Difficult atheism.DDC classification:
  • 211/.8 23
LOC classification:
  • BL2759 .W38 2011eb
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  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Cover; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Series Editor's Preface; Introduction: Atheisms Today; 1. The God of Metaphysics; 2. The God of the Poets; 3. Difficult Atheism; 4. Beyond A/theism? Quentin Meillassoux; 5. The Politics of the Post-Theological I: Justifying the Political; 6. The Politics of the Post-Theological II: Justice; General Conclusion: How to Follow an 'Atheism' That Never Was; Bibliography; Index.
Summary: Difficult Atheism shows how contemporary French philosophy is rethinking the legacy of the death of God in ways that take the debate beyond the narrow confines of atheism into the much broader domain of post-theological thinking. Christopher Watkin argues that Alain Badiou, Jean-Luc Nancy and Quentin Meillassoux each elaborate a distinctive approach to the post-theological, but that each approach still struggles to do justice to the death of God.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 244-276) and index.

Print version record.

Cover; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Series Editor's Preface; Introduction: Atheisms Today; 1. The God of Metaphysics; 2. The God of the Poets; 3. Difficult Atheism; 4. Beyond A/theism? Quentin Meillassoux; 5. The Politics of the Post-Theological I: Justifying the Political; 6. The Politics of the Post-Theological II: Justice; General Conclusion: How to Follow an 'Atheism' That Never Was; Bibliography; Index.

Difficult Atheism shows how contemporary French philosophy is rethinking the legacy of the death of God in ways that take the debate beyond the narrow confines of atheism into the much broader domain of post-theological thinking. Christopher Watkin argues that Alain Badiou, Jean-Luc Nancy and Quentin Meillassoux each elaborate a distinctive approach to the post-theological, but that each approach still struggles to do justice to the death of God.