A Theology of Failure : Žižek against Christian Innocence /

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This book draws the work of Slavoj Žižek into conversation with the Christian mystical theological tradition in order to propose a materialist account of Christian identity as constituted by failure.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rose, Marika (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York, NY : Fordham University Press, 2019.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Žižek, Slavoj.
Pseudo-Dionysius, > the Areopagite.
Derrida, Jacques.
Postmodernism.
Philosophical theology.
Mysticism.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Semiotics & Theory.
RELIGION > Christianity > General.
RELIGION > Christian Theology > Systematic.
mysticism.
Mysticisme.
Postmodernisme.
Theologie philosophique.
Mysticism
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Failing
  • Ontology and desire in Dionysius the Areopagite
  • Apophatic theology and its vicissitudes
  • The death drive: from Freud to Žižek
  • The gift and violence
  • Divine violence as trauma
  • Mystical theology and the four discourses
  • Theology as failure.

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