Christianity, Plasticity, And Spectral Heritages (radical Theologies And Philosophies)
by Victor E. Taylor /
2017 / English / PDF
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This book is an interdisciplinary study of the cultural
representations of Jesus in the context of contemporary religious
theory and continental philosophy. It looks at Jesus in view of
an updated Derridean hauntology and spectrality, with an emphasis
on the inherent plasticity of the Christian heritage. While the
work engages with the recent Jesus-centered writings of Slavoj
Žižek, François Laruelle, and Giorgio Agamben, it places a
greater and much needed emphasis on the philosophical,
theological, and cultural links between a plastic, hauntological
Christian heritage and Jesus’s historically evolving plural
subjectivity, with the latter explored in texts of popular
culture. It is a multidisciplinary study of Jesus, as well as a
dynamic Christian heritage that simultaneously constructs and
deconstructs Jesus’s philosophical, political, and cultural
centrality.
This book is an interdisciplinary study of the cultural
representations of Jesus in the context of contemporary religious
theory and continental philosophy. It looks at Jesus in view of
an updated Derridean hauntology and spectrality, with an emphasis
on the inherent plasticity of the Christian heritage. While the
work engages with the recent Jesus-centered writings of Slavoj
Žižek, François Laruelle, and Giorgio Agamben, it places a
greater and much needed emphasis on the philosophical,
theological, and cultural links between a plastic, hauntological
Christian heritage and Jesus’s historically evolving plural
subjectivity, with the latter explored in texts of popular
culture. It is a multidisciplinary study of Jesus, as well as a
dynamic Christian heritage that simultaneously constructs and
deconstructs Jesus’s philosophical, political, and cultural
centrality.