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Author:   Ernst van den Hemel ,  Asja Szafraniec
Publisher:   Fordham University Press
Imprint:   Fordham University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 18.10cm , Height: 3.80cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.003kg
ISBN:  

9780823255559

ISBN 10:   0823255557
Pages:   614
Publication Date:   15 June 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"Introduction: 'Any more deathless questions?', Asja Szafraniec and Ernst van den Hemel Part 1: What are words? 'Word as Act: Varieties of Semiotic Ideology in the Interpretation of Religion', Michael Lambek 'The power of words and the performative context', Jacqueline Borsje 'Inscriptional Violence and the Art of Cursing: A Study of Performative Writing', Jan Assmann 'Words and Word-Bodies: Writing the Religious Body', Loriliai Biernacki Part 2 Religious Vocabularies: 'Semantic Differences; or, ""Judaism""; ""Christianity""', Daniel Boyarin 'The Name God in Blanchot', Jean-Luc Nancy 'Humanism's Cry: On Infinity in Religion, and Absence in Atheism-A Dialogue with Blanchot and Nancy', Laurens ten Kate 'Intuition, Interpellation, Insight: Elements of a Theory of Conversion', Nils F. Schott 'Allowed and forbidden words: Canon and Censorship in ""Grunbegriffe"", ""Critical terms"", Encyclopaedias', Christoph Auffarth Part 3: Transmitting and Translating the Implicit 'God lisped: divine accommodation and cracks in Calvin's Scriptural voice', Ernst Van den Hemel 'Rethinking the Implicit: Fragments of the Project on Aggada and Halakhah in W.Benjamin', Sergey Dolgopolski 'What Cannot Be Said: Apophasis and the Discourse of Love', Jean-Luc Marion 'Jean-Luc Marion and the Basic Problems of Phenomenology', Tarek Dika Part 4: Situating Oneself via Language 'A Quarrel with God: Cavell on Wittgenstein and Hegel', Asja Szafraniec 'Thinking about the Secular Body, Pain, and Liberal Politics', Talal Asad 'The Rise of Literal-Mindedness', Peter Burke 'Fiction-based Religion: From Star Wars to Jediism', Markus Altena Davidsen 'Prayer: Addressing the Name', Karmen Mackendrick Part 5 Language and the Foundation of Communities 'The Words of the Martyr. Media, Martyrdom and the Construction of a Community', Pieter Nanninga ""Spritual X-ray Vision"": the Religio-Political Rhetoric of Abraham Kuyper', Arie L. Molendijk 'Thinking through Religious Nationalism', Roger Friedland and Kenneth B. Moss"

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<br> The conversation about the modern, the religious, and the secular is not over, and this volume will push the dialogue in fruitful new directions. -S. Brent Plate, Hamilton College<p><br>

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Ernst van den Hemel (Author) Ernst van den Hemel is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Center for the Humanities of Universiteit Utrecht. He completed his PhD at the University of Amsterdam as part of the project titled the Future of the Religious Past. His current research focuses on the postsecular and national identity. He teaches at the department of Religious Studies, Utrecht University. Van den Hemel is the secretary of the Foresight Committee Theology of Religious Studies of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences. Asja Szafraniec (Author) Asja Szafraniec teaches at Amsterdam University College. She is the author of Beckett, Derrida, and the Event of Literature (Stanford University Press, 2007), and of articles on the relation between continental and ordinary language philosophy, on the question of the specificity of the nature of philosophical discourse, and on the relation between philosophy and various forms of literary experiment. Her current research on the work of Stanley Cavell focuses on contemporary philosophy’s response to the questions of skepticism, faith, and religion.

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