Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xxiv, 287 pages)
Edition:
First edition
Edition:
2019
ISBN:
9781350094109
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9781350094093
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9781350094086
Series Statement:
Political theologies
Content:
"Beginning from the notion of finite life, Another Finitude takes this staple subject from post-Heideggerian philosophy and opposes it to the onto-theological concept of infinity, represented by an eternal absolute. Although critical of Heidegger and his definition of finitude as 'being-towards-death', this book does not revert to the ontological idea of infinity secured in the sacred image of immortality. But it also does not want to give up on infinity altogether; the infinite is transposed, so it can become a necessary moment of the finite life. A theological framework for the new elaboration of the concept of finitude is crucial; but instead of following the Lutheran formula, Agata Bielik-Robson turns to the sources of Judaism. Taking inspiration from the Jewish idea of torat hayim, the principle of finite life, which found the best expression in the biblical sentence: love strong as death; love emerges as the alternative marker of finitude, allowing to us redefine it in an affirmative way. By tracing the avatars of love in the group of 20th-century thinkers, or 'messianic vitalists'-Benjamin, Rosenzweig, Arendt, Derrida, and (deeply revised) Freud-the book attempts to demonstrate the possibility of such affirmation. Love becomes the new 'infinite-in-the-finite'; love in all its forms, from the original libidinal endowment of the human psyche to the last metamorphoses of agape, the Greco-Christian divine love."--Bloomsbury Publishing
Content:
Preface: Finitum Capax Infiniti -- Introduction: Life Before Death, an Outline -- Part 1 -- Love Strong as Death: Polemics -- Chapter 1. Falling - in Love: Rosenzweig versus Heidegger -- Chapter 2. Being-towards-Birth: Arendt and the Finitude of Origins -- Part 2 -- Erros, The Drive in the Desert -- Chapter 3. Derrida's Torat Hayim, or the Religion of the Finite Life -- Chapter 4. Another Infinity: Towards Messianic Psychoanalysis.
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781350094079
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Bielik-Robson, Agata, 1966 - Another finitude London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2019 ISBN 9781350094079
Language:
English
Subjects:
Theology
Keywords:
Endlichkeit
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Unsterblichkeit
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Messianismus
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Jüdische Philosophie
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Freud, Sigmund 1856-1939
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Rosenzweig, Franz 1886-1929
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Benjamin, Walter 1892-1940
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Arendt, Hannah 1906-1975
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Derrida, Jacques 1930-2004
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Vitalismus
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Messianismus
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Electronic books
DOI:
10.5040/9781350094109
Author information:
Bielik-Robson, Agata 1966-
