Limbo Reapplied: On Living in Perennial Crisis and the Immanent Afterlife
The observation that our world is signed by a lasting crisis is as much underwritten as it is questioned. This book offers a new and provocative thesis by taking recourse to the religious discourse of Limbo, and by investigating the temporal and spatial structures of crisis and modernity. Modernity...
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| Type de support: | Électronique Livre |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Cham
Springer International Publishing
2018
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| Dans: | Année: 2018 |
| Collection/Revue: | Radical Theologies and Philosophies
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| RelBib Classification: | AB Philosophie de la religion |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Theology
B Critical Theory B Religious Studies B Religion B Historical linguistics B Secularism |
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Accès probablement gratuit Volltext (Verlag) |
| Édition parallèle: | Erscheint auch als: 978-3-319-78912-5 Printed edition: 9783319789125 |
| Résumé: | The observation that our world is signed by a lasting crisis is as much underwritten as it is questioned. This book offers a new and provocative thesis by taking recourse to the religious discourse of Limbo, and by investigating the temporal and spatial structures of crisis and modernity. Modernity reveals itself to be the state of perennial crisis, and we all live in an immanentized state of Limbo 1 Introduction -- 2 Visual Anteprima -- 3 Limbo -- 4 Crisis -- 5 Modernity: A Limboic Fool’s Paradise -- 6 Extraduction: Ascent out of Limbo |
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| ISBN: | 3319789139 |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-78913-2 |