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After the Postsecular and the Postmodern

New Essays in Continental Philosophy of Religion

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A vanguard of scholars asks what comes after the postsecular and postmodern in Continental philosophy of religion. This volume argues philosophy must liberate itself from theological norms and mutate into a new speculative practice to confront the challenges of our time.

Continental philosophy of religion has been dominated for two decades by “postsecular” and “postmodern” thought. This volume brings together a vanguard of scholars to ask…
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Continental philosophy of religion has been dominated for two decades by “postsecular” and “postmodern” thought. This volume brings together a vanguard of scholars to ask what comes after the postsecular and the postmodern—that is, what is Continental philosophy of religion now? Against the subjugation of philosophy to theology, After the Postsecular and the Postmodern: New Essays in Continental Philosophy of Religion argues that philosophy of religion must either liberate itself from theological norms or mutate into a new practice of thinking in order to confront the challenges religion presents for our time. The essays do not propose a new orthodoxy but set the stage for new debates by reclaiming a practice of philosophy of religion that recovers and draws on the insights of a distinctly modern tradition of Continental philosophy, confronts the challenge of rethinking the secular in the light of the postsecular event, and calls for a move from strictly critical to speculative thought in order to experiment with what philosophy can do. This collection of essays is indispensable for anyone interested in the relationship between philosophy and theology, political questions regarding religion and in what contemporary speculative Continental philosophy has to add to philosophy of religion.

Anthony Paul Smith is a research fellow at the Institute for Nature and Culture (DePaul University) and received his Ph.D. in Philosophical Theology from the University of Nottingham. He is the translator of François Laruelle’s Future Christ: A Lesson in Heresy (Continuum, 2010) and has published in Polygraph, Political Theology, SubStance, Journal of Cultural and Religious Theory, and Analecta Hermeneutica on religion, nature, politics, and non-philosophy.

Daniel Whistler has a DPhil from the University of Oxford on the subject of F.W.J. Schelling’s theology of language. He is also the editor of the forthcoming volume, Moral Powers, Fragile Beliefs: Essays in Moral and Religious Philosophy (Continuum, 2011).

Pamela Sue Anderson, Alex Andrews, Daniel Barber, James C. Brown, Michael Burns, Clayton Crockett, Alexander Douglas, Philip Goodchild, Clare Greer, Bradley Johnson, Adam Kotsko, John Mullarkey, Karin Nisenbaum, George Pattison, Nina Power, Alberto Toscano, Michael Vaughan, Ashley Vaught

Hardback

  • ISBN: 1-4438-1987-5
  • ISBN13: 978-1-4438-1987-9
  • Date of Publication: 2010-05-25

Paperback

  • ISBN: 1-4438-2704-5
  • ISBN13: 978-1-4438-2704-1
  • Date of Publication: 2011-01-26

Ebook

  • ISBN: 1-4438-2033-4
  • ISBN13: 978-1-4438-2033-2
  • Date of Publication: 2011-01-26

Subject Codes:

  • BIC: HRAB, HPCF7, HPCD
  • THEMA: QRAB, QDHR7, QDH
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