TY  - BOOK
AU  - Vahanian,Noëlle
TI  - The Rebellious No: Variations on a Secular Theology of Language 
T2  - Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
SN  - 9780823256952
AV  - BL65.L2 .V34 2014eb
U1  - 210.1/4 23
PY  - 2014///]
CY  - New York, NY : 
PB  - Fordham University Press, 
KW  - Death of God theology
KW  - Death of God
KW  - Language and languages
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Postmodernism
KW  - Theology
KW  - Philosophy & Theory
KW  - Religion
KW  - RELIGION / Theology
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Secular Theology
KW  - Theology of Language
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; 1 Milk of My Tears --; 2 The Law of the Indifferent Middle --; 3 Great Explanation --; 4 Madness and Civilization: The Paradox of a False Dichotomy --; 5 Two Ways to Believe --; 6 Rebellious Desire and the Real within the Limits of the Symbolic Alone --; 7 Counting Weakness, Countering Power: The Theopolitics of Catherine Keller --; 8 Counter-Currents: Theology and the Future of Continental Philosophy of Religion --; 9 I love you more than a big sheriff --; Notes --; Index; restricted access
N2  - This book aims to renew theological thinking by extending and radicalizing an iconoclastic and existentialist mode of thought. It proposes a theology whose point of departure assumes and accepts the critiques of religion launched by Nietzsche, Freud, Marx, and Feuerbach but nevertheless takes theological desire seriously as a rebellious force working within, but against, an anthropomorphic, phallogocentric worldview.As a theology of language, it does not claim any privileged access to some transcendent divine essence or ground of Being. On the contrary, for Noelle Vahanian theology is a strictly secular discourse, like any other discourse, but aware of its limitations and wary of great promises—its own included. Its faith is that this secular theological desire can be a force against the constitutive indifference of thought, and it is a meditative act of rebellion. Aphoristic instead of argumentative, this book offers an original and constructive engagement with such seminal issues as indifference, belief, madness, and love
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823256983
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780823256983
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780823256983/original
ER  -