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Another Finitude - Messianic Vitalism and Philosophy (Hardcover)
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Another Finitude - Messianic Vitalism and Philosophy (Hardcover)
Series: Political Theologies
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Beginning from the notion of finite life, Another Finitude takes
this staple subject from post-Heideggerian philosophy and opposes
it to the onto-theological concept of infinity, represented by an
eternal absolute. Although critical of Heidegger and his definition
of finitude as 'being-towards-death', this book does not revert to
the ontological idea of infinity secured in the sacred image of
immortality. But it also does not want to give up on infinity
altogether; the infinite is transposed, so it can become a
necessary moment of the finite life. A theological framework for
the new elaboration of the concept of finitude is crucial; but
instead of following the Lutheran formula, Agata Bielik-Robson
turns to the sources of Judaism. Taking inspiration from the Jewish
idea of torat hayim, the principle of finite life, which found the
best expression in the biblical sentence: love strong as death;
love emerges as the alternative marker of finitude, allowing to us
redefine it in an affirmative way. By tracing the avatars of love
in the group of 20th-century thinkers, or 'messianic
vitalists'-Benjamin, Rosenzweig, Arendt, Derrida, and (deeply
revised) Freud-the book attempts to demonstrate the possibility of
such affirmation. Love becomes the new 'infinite-in-the-finite';
love in all its forms, from the original libidinal endowment of the
human psyche to the last metamorphoses of agape, the
Greco-Christian divine love.
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