Theology and Contemporary Continental Philosophy - The Centrality of a Negative Dialectic

This concise yet thorough summary of 20th century continental thought explores research questions that are relevant to contemporary developments in the fields of continental philosophy and political theology, wrestling with the implications of entering a post-secular epoch in both fields.

List of contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter One: On the Relationship of Continental Philosophy to Theology
Chapter Two: Toward a Negative Dialectic
Chapter Three: The Gap within Existence as Theological Motif
Chapter Four: The Phenomenological (Re)turn
Conclusion
Bibliography

About the author

Colby Dickinson is Associate Professor of Theology at Loyola University, Chicago. He is the author of Agamben and Theology (T&T Clark, 2011), Between the Canon and the Messiah (Bloomsbury, 2013) and Words Fail: Theology, Poetry, and the Challenge of Representation (Fordham University Press, 2016, as well as numerous articles on contemporary continental philosophy and theology. He is editor of The Postmodern 'Saints' of France (2013) and The Shaping of Tradition: Context and Normativity (2013).

Product details

• Authors: Colby Dickinson, Dickinson Colby
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.12.2018
• EAN: 9781786610607
• ISBN: 978-1-78661-060-7
• Dimensions: 151 mm x 221 mm x 13 mm
• Weight: 263 g
• Series: Reframing Continental Philosophy of Religion
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; PHILOSOPHY / Religious, Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Phenomenology, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Translating & Interpreting, RELIGION / Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / General, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Existentialism, Translation & interpretation, Philosophy of religion, Topics in philosophy, Phenomenology & Existentialism, Phenomenology and Existentialism, Translation and interpretation