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Dis-Enclosure - The Deconstruction of Christianity (Paperback)
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Dis-Enclosure - The Deconstruction of Christianity (Paperback)
Series: Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
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This book is a profound and eagerly anticipated investigation into
what is left of a monotheistic religious spiritanotably, a
minimalist faith that is neither confessional nor credulous.
Articulating this faith as works and as an objectless hope, Nancy
deconstructs Christianity in search of the historical and
reflective conditions that provided its initial energy. Working
through Blanchot and Nietzsche, re-reading Heidegger and Derrida,
Nancy turns to the Epistle of Saint James rather than those of
Saint Paul, discerning in it the primitive essence of Christianity
as hope. The areligion that provided the exit from religion, a as
he terms Christianity, consists in the announcement of an end. It
is the announcement that counts, however, rather than any finality.
In this announcement there is a proximity to others and to what was
once called parousia. But parousia is no longer presence; it is no
longer the return of the Messiah. Rather, it is what is near us and
does not cease to open and to close, a presence deferred yet
imminent.In a demystified age where we are left with a vision of a
self-enclosed worldain which humans are no longer mortals facing an
immortal being, but entities whose lives are accompanied by the
time of their own declineaparousia stands as a question. Can we
venture the risk of a decentered perspective, such that the meaning
of the world can be found both inside and outside, within and
without our so-immanent world?The deconstruction of Christianity
that Nancy proposes is neither a game nor a strategy. It is an
invitation to imagine a strange faith that enacts the inadequation
of life to itself. Our lives overflow the self-contained boundaries
of their biological andsociological interpretations. Out of this
excess, wells up a fragile, overlooked meaning that is beyond both
confessionalism and humanism.
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