{"product_id":"minimal-theologies-9781421437484","title":"Minimal Theologies","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOriginally published in in 2004. What, at this historical moment after Auschwitz, still remains of the questions traditionally asked by theology? What now is theology's minimal degree? This magisterial study, the first extended comparison of the writings of Theodor W. Adorno and Emmanuel Levinas, explores remnants and echoes of religious forms in these thinkers' critiques of secular reason, finding in the work of both a theology in pianissimo constituted by the trace of a transcendent other. The author analyzes, systematizes, and formalizes this idea of an other of reason. In addition, he frames these thinkers' innovative projects within the arguments of such intellectual heirs as Jurgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida, defending their work against later accusations of performative contradiction (by Habermas) or empiricism (by Derrida) and in the process casting important new light on those later writers as well. Attentive to rhetorical and rational features of Adorno's and Levinas's text\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis fiercely intricate and intriguing work gestures towards a 'theological' position that avoids the Scylla of false hope and the Charybdis of nihilism . . . A suggestive, intelligent and erudite (non-linear) journey alongside Habermas, Adorno, Levinas and Derrida.\u003cbr\u003e—Christopher J. Insole, \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA deeply impressive achievement and an important contribution to theological debate in the wake of Critical Theory and deconstruction.\u003cbr\u003e—Colin Davis, \u003ci\u003eModern Language Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIs modern or twentieth-century philosophy, as any cursory look would seem to indicate, overwhelmingly secular, or is there perhaps an unacknowledged entanglement with religion that may be constitutive of what the most sophisticated thinking was and continues to be? It is the latter alternative that Hent de Vries has explored in his now substantial body of research on the works of thinkers such as Emmanuel Levinas, Jean-Luc Marion, Jacques Derrida and Theodor W. Adorno—all of whom he takes to represent a kind of 'working through' of theological motifs in the register of conceptual, philosophical reflection. De Vries has previously published two acclaimed books on this topic—\u003ci\u003ePhilosophy and the Turn to Religion\u003c\/i\u003e (1999) and \u003ci\u003eReligion and Violence\u003c\/i\u003e (2001) . . . \u003ci\u003eMinimal Theologies\u003c\/i\u003e is an important book that ought to find a wide readership.\u003cbr\u003e—Espen Hammer, \u003ci\u003eRadical Philosophy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003esubstantial contribution to the philosophy of religion and to the study of the thought of Adorno and Levinas.\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eStudies in Religion \/ Sciences Religieuses\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVery demanding but rewarding book.\u003cbr\u003e—Marsha Aileen Hewitt, \u003ci\u003eReligious Studies Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDeserves to be examined with care.\u003cbr\u003e—Ryan Coyne, \u003ci\u003eJournal of Religion\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis volume offers an original exploration of the interactions of philosophy and religion, and is a must read for those interested in theology, critical theory, deconstruction, and dialectics.\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003ePrabuddha Bharata\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface and Acknowledgments \u003cbr\u003eAbbreviations \u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Tertium Datur \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I. Antiprolegomena\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1. Toward a Critique of Theology \u003cbr\u003eChapter 2. A Possible Internal and External Differentiation of Habermas's Theory of Rationality \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II. Dialectica\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e3. Paradox and Aporia in Adorno's Philosophy of Nonidentity\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4. The Construction of Occidental Subjectivism: \u003ci\u003eReductio ad hominem\u003c\/i\u003e versus Remembrance of Nature in the Subject\u003cbr\u003eChapter 5. The Breaking Apart of Western Objectivism and the Resurrection of the Particular and the Ephemeral in the Philosophy of History\u003cbr\u003eChapter 6. Metaphysical Experience \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III. Phaenomenologica\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e7. Paradox and Aporia in Levinas's Philosophy of the Ethical-Religious Other\u003cbr\u003eChapter 8. Levinas on Art and Truth \u003cbr\u003eChapter 9. The Dialectics of Subjectivity and the Critique of Objectivism \u003cbr\u003eChapter 10. Loosening Logocentrism: Language and Skepticism\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV. Hermeneutica Sacra sive Profana\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e11. From Unhappy Consciousness to Bad Conscience \u003cbr\u003eChapter 12 \"The Other Theology\": Conceptual, Historical, and Political Idolatry \u003cbr\u003eAppendix. The Theology of the Sign and the Sign of Theology: The Apophatics of Deconstruction\u003cbr\u003eBibliography \u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408137560407,"sku":"9781421437484","price":46.35,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/minimal-theologies-9781421437484","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}