Interstices of the Sublime Theology and Psychoanalytic Theory |
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Author:
| Crockett, Clayton |
Series title: | Perspectives in Continental Philosophy Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-0-8232-2721-1 |
Publication Date: | May 2007 |
Publisher: | Fordham University Press
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Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | USD $90.00 |
Book Description:
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Interstices of the Sublime is a powerful theological engagement with psychoanalytic theory in Freud, Lacan, Kristeva, and Z#65533; i#65533;zek, as well as major expressions of contemporary Continental philosophy, including Deleuze, Derrida, Marion, and Badiou. The sublime refers to a conflict of the Kantian faculties of reason and imagination, and involves the attempt to represent what is intrinsically unrepresentable. The effects of the sublime are not just psychoanalytic...
More DescriptionInterstices of the Sublime is a powerful theological engagement with psychoanalytic theory in Freud, Lacan, Kristeva, and Z#65533; i#65533;zek, as well as major expressions of contemporary Continental philosophy, including Deleuze,
Derrida, Marion, and Badiou. The sublime refers to a conflict of the Kantian faculties of reason and imagination, and involves the attempt to represent what is intrinsically unrepresentable. The effects of the sublime are not
just psychoanalytic but, importantly, theological, because the sublime is the main form that "God" takes in the modern world. A radical postmodern theology attends to the workings of the sublime in our thinking and living,
and provides resources for understanding the complexity of reality. Through creative readings of topics such as sublimation, schizophrenia, God, and creation ex nihilo, this book contributes to a new form of radical theological thinking that is deeply involved in the world.