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Trials : Of Antigone and Jesus.
Title:
Trials : Of Antigone and Jesus.
Author:
Robert, William.
ISBN:
9780823231676
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (170 pages)
Series:
Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
Contents:
Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Invocation -- Impossible Love -- Between Nature and Culture -- Surviving, Forever Foreign -- Cryptic Crossing -- Touching Transcendence, in the Flesh -- The Tragedy of Christianity -- Opening -- Notes.
Abstract:
What does it mean to be called GhumanG? How does this affect or effect what it means to be called GdivineG? This book responds to these questions in intertwined explorations of the passionate trials of Antigone and Jesus. Impelled by her love of the impossible, Antigone crosses uncrossable boundaries, confounds distinctions of nature and culture, and unearths and critiques the sexism implicit in humanism. The mode of humanity she develops offers a new way of considering Jesus. Through a close reading of MarkGs gospel focused on JesusG cry of abandonment from the cross, the author shows that to refigure humanity is also to refigure divinity and their relation. In the first extended treatment of NancyGs Corpus in English, the author proposes an innovative account of JesusG humanity and divinityGone that can contribute to religious understandings of embodiment and prayer and can open avenues of inquiry into tragedy, sexual difference, posthumanism, and politics.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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