The Return of Religion in France From Democratisation to Postmetaphysics

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ISBN: 9780230205192 | 0230205194
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 6/15/2009

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This monograph examines how social change and philosophical crisis in the 1980s created the conditions for the return of religion to contemporary French intellectual life. It highlights a critical conjuncture in recent French history when religion was revitalised in French secularism as an expression of individual identity.

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	p. 1
History and Context
The Return of Religion in France	p. 13
Esprit: a history of religious engagement	p. 17
The paradox of secularisation	p. 28
From modernity to postmodernity: a critical overview	p. 31
Laïcité and democracy	p. 37
Régis Debray: 'teaching religion is not religious teaching'	p. 39
Theology and Sexual Ethics	p. 48
Post-secular France	p. 51
Catholic sexual ethics	p. 53
The politics of gay marriage in France	p. 60
Ethics and theology in post-secular France	p. 68
Post-secularism, Belief and Being as Event	p. 80
From secularism to post-secularism	p. 80
'L'anthropologie du croire': De Certeau, Gauchet and Hervieu-Léger	p. 85
A philosophy of secularisation	p. 93
Being as Event	p. 95
Vattimo's belief: a philosophy of actuality	p. 97
Vattimo and the Vatican: a literal difference	p. 99
Vattimo and Foucault	p. 103
Philosophy and Concepts
The Postmetaphysical	p. 113
Philosophy and theology: a brief history	p. 117
The 'concept' of God	p. 126
The phenomenological breakthrough? Jean-Luc Marion and the concept of 'givenness'	p. 136
Phenomenology as affective transcendence: a Lévinas reading	p. 142
Postsubjectivity	p. 148
Who comes after the subject?	p. 148
Michel Henry: 'truth of the world' versus 'truth of life'	p. 161
Phenomenological life	p. 167
Ipseity and transcendental life	p. 169
The radically immanent self	p. 172
The 'I'/'Me'	p. 174
Ethics and the other	p. 176
'Broken Cogito' and Textual Subjectivity	p. 181
Faith, truth and philosophy: the case of Paul Ricoeur	p. 184
Hermeneutics of the self and faith texts	p. 196
Oneself as another	p. 208
Posteventality	p. 214
Alain Badiou's Saint Paul: the event and universalism	p. 216
The divided subject	p. 224
Jean-François Lyotard: a phenomenology of the event	p. 233
Lyotard's subject: a phenomenology of the flesh	p. 238
A semiotics of the event	p. 241
Conclusion	p. 248
Notes	p. 251
Bibliography	p. 273
Index	p. 279
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