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Zusatztext This volume can serve as an expansive introduction to contemporary French thought. Informationen zum Autor Colby Dickinson is Associate Professor of Theology at Loyola University Chicago, USA. Klappentext This collection of essays redefines the concept of 'saintliness' as it is utilized and refashioned in contemporary French philosophy. An interesting and valuable collection of essays...[covering] a range of approaches. -- John Reader Modern Believing 20130701 This collection of essays redefines the concept of 'saintliness' as it is utilized and refashioned in contemporary French philosophy. Zusammenfassung From the mid to the late 20th century various French thinkers have at times toyed wth the label of ‘the saint', applying it to friends, colleagues, the revered nd even the worshipped such as Genet, Sartre, Camus or Foucault. Despite this profaning of the term, however, here are many subtle truths which emerge from its usage among such writers. This volume is devoted to exploring certain varied notions of ‘the saint' in recent French philosophical and literary thought from within a theological context, offering insights and valuable contributions toward how we understand sainthood in cultural, philosophical and religious terms. Each essay focuses on the convergence of a particular author's work and their various (re)formulations of ‘saintliness' in their writings, whether this concept is directly expressed in their writings or not. In general, the aim of the volume is to develop a critical engagement between each authors' philosophical worldview and historical notions of sainthood, such that we are capable of providing new understandings of what a ‘saint' could be said to be in our world today. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction\Jean Genet versus Saint Genet: Seeking redemption on theedges\HolyMary, Holy Desire: Luce Irigaray and Saintly Daughters\Jean-Luc the Great? The Academic Reception ofa Marion Spirituality\Saint Lyotard\Ricoeur and the Symbolism of Sainthood\Saint Levinas\St. Maurice du Dehors\ Saint Girard\ Of Foucault, "Who Could Have Been SaintPaul"\La nouvelle philosophie: Sanctity and the Philosophy of Sainthood in Jean-Yves Lacoste\Saint Derrida\Albert Camus on the Rebel as Saint and theSaint as Rebel\Saint Badiou, Saint Pascal...
