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Table of contents (5 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book is an interdisciplinary study of the cultural representations of Jesus in the context of contemporary religious theory and continental philosophy. It looks at Jesus in view of an updated Derridean hauntology and spectrality, with an emphasis on the inherent plasticity of the Christian heritage. While the work engages with the recent Jesus-centered writings of Slavoj Žižek, François Laruelle, and Giorgio Agamben, it places a greater and much needed emphasis on the philosophical, theological, and cultural links between a plastic, hauntological Christian heritage and Jesus’s historically evolving plural subjectivity, with the latter explored in texts of popular culture. It is a multidisciplinary study of Jesus, as well as a dynamic Christian heritage that simultaneously constructs and deconstructs Jesus’s philosophical, political, and cultural centrality.
Authors and Affiliations
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York College of Pennsylvania , York, USA
Victor E. Taylor
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Christianity, Plasticity, and Spectral Heritages
Authors: Victor E. Taylor
Series Title: Radical Theologies and Philosophies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60991-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-60990-4Published: 01 August 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-86977-3Published: 07 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-60991-1Published: 20 July 2017
Series ISSN: 2634-663X
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6648
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 182
Topics: Christian Theology, Cultural Theory, Critical Theory, Philosophy of Religion