Limbo Reapplied - On Living in Perennial Crisis and the Immanent Afterlife

The observation that our world is signed by a lasting crisis is as much underwritten as it is questioned. This book offers a new and provocative thesis by taking recourse to the religious discourse of Limbo, and by investigating the temporal and spatial structures of crisis and modernity. Modernity reveals itself to be the state of perennial crisis, and we all live in an immanentized state of Limbo.

List of contents

1 Introduction.- 2 Visual Anteprima.- 3 Limbo.- 4 Crisis.- 5 Modernity: A Limboic Fool's Paradise.- 6 Extraduction: Ascent out of Limbo.

About the author

Kristof K.P. Vanhoutte is Research Fellow at the University of the Free State, South Africa, and Invited Professor of Philosophy at the Pontifical University Antonianum, Rome, Italy.

Summary

The observation that our world is signed by a lasting crisis is as much underwritten as it is questioned. This book offers a new and provocative thesis by taking recourse to the religious discourse of Limbo, and by investigating the temporal and spatial structures of crisis and modernity. Modernity reveals itself to be the state of perennial crisis, and we all live in an immanentized state of Limbo.

Product details

• Authors: Kristof K P Vanhoutte, Kristof K. P. Vanhoutte, Kristof K.P. Vanhoutte
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2018
• EAN: 9783319789125
• ISBN: 978-3-31-978912-5
• No. of pages: 258
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 216 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 490 g
• Illustrations: XV, 258 p. 4 illus. in color.
• Series: Radical Theologies and Philosophies; Radical Theologies and Philosophies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous; B, Sociology of Religion, Sprache: Geschichte und Allgemeines, Theology, Christianity, Christian theology, Critical Theory, auseinandersetzen, Language: history & general works, Secularism, Religion and Philosophy, History of philosophy, philosophical traditions, Historical Linguistics, Language: history and general works, Language History, Žižek;Dupuy;krisis;logorare;Agamben