Difficult atheism
Subtitle: post-theological thinking in Alain Badiou, Jean-Luc Nancy and Quentin Meillassoux
By: Christopher Watkin
Series: Crosscurrents
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Edinburgh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 281
ISBN-13: 9780748640577
Subjects: Atheism; French Philosophy
Description: Difficult Atheism shows how contemporary French philosophy is rethinking the legacy of the death of God in ways that take the debate beyond the narrow confines of atheism into the much broader domain of post-theological thinking. Christopher Watkin argues that Alain Badiou, Jean-Luc Nancy and Quentin Meillassoux each elaborate a distinctive approach to the post-theological, but that each approach still struggles to do justice to the death of God.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [244]-276) and index.
Table of contents: title: Atheisms Today; title: The God of Metaphysics; title: The God of the Poets; title: Difficult Atheism; title: Beyond A/theism? Quentin Meillassoux; title: The Politics of the Post-Theological I: Justifying the Political; title: The Politics of the Post-Theological II: Justice; title: General Conclusion: How to Follow an 'Atheism' That Never Was.