Ending Christian Hegemony: Jean-Luc Nancy and the Ends of Eurocentric Thought
This essay addresses Jean-Luc Nancy’s "deconstruction of Christianity" and how what Christianity proclaims through enacting a deconstruction of itself brings an end to the western, hegemonic hold that Christian imperialism has perpetuated for centuries. Nancy, for his part, takes up the na...
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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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De Gruyter
2022
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Open theology
Année: 2022, Volume: 8, Numéro: 1, Pages: 14-27 |
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B Messianic B Jean-Luc Nancy B antinomian B deconstruction of Christianity B dis-enclosure B Inoperativity |
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| Résumé: | This essay addresses Jean-Luc Nancy’s "deconstruction of Christianity" and how what Christianity proclaims through enacting a deconstruction of itself brings an end to the western, hegemonic hold that Christian imperialism has perpetuated for centuries. Nancy, for his part, takes up the name of Christianity insofar as it is a religious phenomenon that signals a trajectory of thought in the West that must be discerned as providing an "exit from religion and of the expansion of the atheist world." Since deconstructing the dominant narratives of the West means deconstructing the myth of a sovereign, autonomous deity whose reign, Nancy declares, has reached its end, Christianity utilizes its own kenotic narrative to point toward the end of religion and Eurocentrism at the same time. |
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| ISSN: | 2300-6579 |
| Contient: | Enthalten in: Open theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1515/opth-2020-0191 |