Between the Canon and the Messiah: The Structure of Faith in Contemporary Continental Thought Contributor(s): Dickinson, Colby (Author) |
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ISBN: 1472587197 ISBN-13: 9781472587190 Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: September 2014 Click for more in this series: Bloomsbury Studies in Continental Philosophy |
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BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | History & Surveys - Modern - Religion | Theology |
Dewey: 202.3 |
Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Continental Philosophy |
Physical Information: 0.59" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" L (0.87 lbs) 288 pages |
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Publisher Description: Dickinson traces the development of two concepts, the messianic and the canonical, as they circulate, interweave and contest each other in the work of three prominent continental philosophers: Walter Benjamin, Jacques Derrida and Giorgio Agamben, though a strong supporting cast of Jan Assmann, Gershom Scholem, Jacob Taubes and Paul Ricoeur, among others, also play their respective roles throughout this study. He isolates how their various interactions with their chosen terms reflects a good deal of what is said within the various discourses that constitute what we have conveniently labelled, often in mistakenly monolithic terms, as 'Theology'. By narrowing the scope of this study to the dynamics generated historically by these contrasting terms, he also seeks to determine what exactly lies at the heart of theology's seemingly most treasured object: the presentation beyond any representation, the supposed true nucleus of all revelation and what lies behind any search for a 'theology of immanence' today. |
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