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Christ in Postmodern Philosophy - Gianni Vattimo, Rene Girard, and Slavoj Zizek (Paperback)
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Christ in Postmodern Philosophy - Gianni Vattimo, Rene Girard, and Slavoj Zizek (Paperback)
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This title offers an investigation into the Christological ideas of
three contemporary thinkers: Slavoj Zizek, Gianni Vattimo and Rene
Girard.In the wake of Heidegger's announcement of the end of
onto-theology and inspired by both Levinas and Derrida, many
contemporary continental philosophers of religion search for a
post-metaphysical God, a God who is often characterized as tout
autre, wholly other.The Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek is an
exception to this rule. First, he clearly has another source of
inspiration: neither Heidegger, Levinas or Derrida, but Lacan and
the great thinkers of German Idealism (Kant, Schelling, and Hegel).
Moreover, he does not aim at tracing a post-metaphysical God. His
'turn' to Christianity is the result of his concern to 'save' the
achievements of modernity from fundamentalism, post-modern
relativism and religious obscurantism.The Italian philosopher
Gianni Vattimo is an intermediary. His sources (mainly Nietzsche
and Heidegger) seem to indicate that he aligns with those
philosophers whose works are inspired by Heidegger, Levinas and
Derrida. Indeed, Vattimo is also searching for the God who comes
after metaphysics, but he explicitly rejects the wholly-other God.
With Zizek, Vattimo shares a Christological interest, an attention
for the event of the Incarnation and the conviction that the
Incarnation amounts to the end of God's transcendence. Both
thinkers also defend the uniqueness of Christianity vis-a-vis
natural religiosity. In this way, they seem to share at least some
affinity with the views of the French-American literary critic and
fundamental anthropologist Rene Girard, who has also defended the
uniqueness of Christianity and claims that the latter broke away
from the violent transcendence of the natural religions.The book
will investigate the Christological ideas of these three
contemporary thinkers, focussing on the topics of the relation
between transcendence and the event of the Incarnation on the one
hand, and the topic of the uniqueness of Christianity on the other.
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