The Future Of Continental Philosophy Of Religion (indiana Series In The Philosophy Of Religion)

What is the future of Continental philosophy of religion? These forward-looking essays address the new thinkers and movements that have gained prominence since the generation of Derrida, Deleuze, Foucault, and Levinas and how they will reshape Continental philosophy of religion in the years to come. They look at the ways concepts such as liberation, sovereignty, and post-colonialism have engaged this new generation with political theology and the new pathways of thought that have opened in the wake of speculative realism and recent findings in neuroscience and evolutionary psychology. Readers will discover new directions in this challenging and important area of philosophical inquiry. Cover 1 Contents 6 Acknowledgments 8 Introduction: Back to the Future 12 PART I. THE MESSIANIC 30 1 Is Continental Philosophy of Religion Dead? 32 2 Friends and Strangers/Poets and Rabbis: Negotiating a “Capuphalian” Philosophy of Religion 45 Response by Merold Westphal 56 Response by John D. Caputo 62 3 On Faith, the Maternal, and Postmodernism 70 4 The Persistence of the Trace: Interrogating the Gods of Speculative Realism 91 5 Speculating God: Speculative Realism and Meillassoux’s Divine Inexistence 103 6 Between Deconstruction and Speculation: John D. Caputo and A/Theological Materialism 119 PART II. LIBERATION 136 7 The Future of Liberation 138 8 Monetized Philosophy and Theological Money: Uneasy Linkages and the Future of a Discourse 151 9 “Between Justice and My Mother”: Reflections on and between Levinas and Žižek 165 10 Verbis Indisciplinatis 178 11 Overwhelming Abundance and Everyday Liturgical Practices: For a Less Excessive Phenomenology of Religious Experience 190 12 Countercurrents: Theology and the Future of Continental Philosophy of Religion 208 PART III. PLASTICITY 218 13 The Future of Derrida: Time between Epigenesis and Epigenetics 220 14 On Reading—Catherine Malabou 230 15 Necessity as Virtue: On Religious Materialism from Feuerbach to Žižek 240 16 Plasticity in the Contemporary Islamic Subject 253 17 From Cosmology to the First Ethical Gesture: Schelling with Irigaray 264 18 Prolegomenon to Thinking the Reject for the Future of Continental Philosophy of Religion 274 19 Entropy 283 List of Contributors 294 Index 298 A 298 B 298 C 298 D 299 E 299 F 299 G 299 H 299 I 300 J 300 K 300 L 300 M 300 N 301 O 301 P 301 Q 301 R 301 S 302 T 302 U 302 V 302 W 302 X 303 Z 303 Content: Cover Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Back to the Future PART I. THE MESSIANIC 1 Is Continental Philosophy of Religion Dead? 2 Friends and Strangers/Poets and Rabbis: Negotiating a "Capuphalian" Philosophy of Religion Response by Merold Westphal Response by John D. Caputo 3 On Faith, the Maternal, and Postmodernism 4 The Persistence of the Trace: Interrogating the Gods of Speculative Realism 5 Speculating God: Speculative Realism and Meillassoux's Divine Inexistence 6 Between Deconstruction and Speculation: John D. Caputo and A/Theological Materialism PART II. LIBERATION 7 The Future of Liberation8 Monetized Philosophy and Theological Money: Uneasy Linkages and the Future of a Discourse 9 "Between Justice and My Mother": Reflections on and between Levinas and Žižek 10 Verbis Indisciplinatis 11 Overwhelming Abundance and Everyday Liturgical Practices: For a Less Excessive Phenomenology of Religious Experience 12 Countercurrents: Theology and the Future of Continental Philosophy of Religion PART III. PLASTICITY 13 The Future of Derrida: Time between Epigenesis and Epigenetics 14 On Reading-Catherine Malabou 15 Necessity as Virtue: On Religious Materialism from Feuerbach to Žižek16 Plasticity in the Contemporary Islamic Subject 17 From Cosmology to the First Ethical Gesture: Schelling with Irigaray 18 Prolegomenon to Thinking the Reject for the Future of Continental Philosophy of Religion 19 Entropy List of Contributors Index A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Z What is the future of Continental philosophy of religion? These forward-looking essays address the new thinkers and movements that have gained prominence since the generation of Derrida, Deleuze, Foucault, and Levinas and how they will reshape Continental philosophy of religion in the years to come. They look at the ways concepts such as liberation, sovereignty, and post-colonialism have engaged this new generation with political theology and at the new pathways of thought that have opened in the wake of speculative realism and recent, findings in neuroscience and evolutionary psychology. Readers will discover new directions in this challenging and important area of philosophical inquiry. Book jacket