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Jean-Luc Nancy and the Deconstruction of Christianity

  • Ashok Collins
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2025
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Explores Jean-Luc Nancy's innovative engagement with the deconstructive tradition and its implications for thinking religion

  • Undertakes the first comprehensive book-length study of Nancy’s relationship to the deconstructive tradition, particularly the thinking of Derrida
  • Engages with French sources that are unavailable in English, including texts such as ‘Catéchisme de persévérance’ and Signaux sensibles: Entretiens à propos des arts, radio interviews broadcast on Radio France and newspaper articles published in Libération
  • Proposes new avenues for understanding the intersection between deconstruction and religion
  • Lays out a novel approach to religion within secular modernity in which the boundaries between theology and philosophy are redrawn
In dialogue with Derridean deconstruction, this book highlights Nancy's distinctive figurative philosophical style which emerges as a transformative force, one that radicalises différance and draws out its creative potential. Through this generative logic, Nancy reconfigures how we conceptualise Christianity—not as an entity apart from philosophical reflection, but as intricately intertwined with it. Ashok Collins offers a bold new perspective on the 'turn to religion' within deconstruction, charting fresh pathways for debate and reflection far beyond its established boundaries.

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    Frontmatter

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    Contents

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    Series Editor’s Preface

    vii
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    Acknowledgements

    ix
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  • Introduction: Christianity and the Origin
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    Caputo vs Hägglund

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    Jean-Luc Nancy’s Deconstruction of Christianity

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    Luther and Heidegger

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    Does ‘Christianity’ Exist?

    8
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    S’il y en a, or il n’y a pas?

    10
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    Figuration

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    Outline

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    NOTES

    17
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  • 1. Creation Ex Nihilo: The Figurative Subject
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    God Without Being

    26
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    Onto-theology

    28
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    A Spinozan Rewriting of Being and Time

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    Invention

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    Who Comes After the Subject?

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    Ego Sum

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    Dardichtung

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    The Figurative Subject

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    Areality, or the ‘There’

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    The Fiction of Creation

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    NOTES

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  • 2. Trinity: An Ontology of Relation
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    Alterity and Fraternity

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    Interior intimo meo

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    Singular Plurality

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    God as the Otherness of the World

    67
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    The Renvoi and Resonance of Sense

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    Revelation and the Call

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    Caritas and Community

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    Adoration and the With

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    NOTES

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  • 3. Incarnation: Writing the Tactile Body
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    Chrétien’s Spiritual Touch

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    Kenosis

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    The Body and Sense

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    Figuration, or Exscription

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    The Tactile Body

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    Eucharistic Touch

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    NOTES

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  • 4. Resurrection: The Truth of Christianity
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    Hegelian Aufhebung

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    Salvation

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    Anastasis: Sight and Touch

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    Salutation and Relation

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    Testimony: Truth and Sense

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    Parousia: The Self-Overcoming of Revelation

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    The (Re)Birth of Christianity

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    NOTES

    156
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    Conclusion: The Future of Philosophy and Religion

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    Bibliography

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    Index

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August 26, 2025
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9781399540735
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200
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781399540735
eBook ISBN: 9781399540735
Keywords for this book
Christianity; deconstruction; philosophy of religion; Jean-Luc Nancy; Jacques Derrida; language; materialism; theology
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