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Title: After Christianity by Gianni Vattimo ISBN: 0-231-10628-9 Publisher: Columbia University Press Pub. Date: 15 July, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.50 |
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Summary: After Blumenberg
Comment: Vattimo's "After Christianity" could be titled "After Blumenberg". Of course I am referring to Hans Blumenberg's "The Legitimacy of the Modern Age". Blumenberg's thesis, as I found it relevant for the philosophy of relgion, is that the secularization that occurs in Modern philosophy is a direct result of William of Ockhams'emphasis upon radical divine omnipotence combined with a form of realist skepticism. Hence, secularization is the result of Christianity's internal incoherence. The modern age is hence a legitimate construct independent of Christian theology.
Vattimo argues almost the exact opposite. The secularization of European culture, YES! European Culture, is the result of the kenotic emptying of the Christian God in Christ. The increased generalization, abstraction, and emptying the concept of God that characterizes Modernity is not the result of Christianity's internal incoherence. Just the opposite, not only is Modernity's secularization and its emptying all the content from the concept of God coherent with Christianity, but also the "postmodern" (here Vattimo means nihilism) condition is a coherent development of the workings of Christianity's kenotic God.
I'll leave you to "After Christianity" to figure out how Vattimo pulls this off and what he thinks its implications are. The signficance of Vattimo for contemporary philosophy of religion cannot be overrated. Certainly his works raises major questions about theological movements like "Radical Orthodoxy" and the theology of John Milbank.
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Title: Belief (Cultural Memory of the Present (Paperback)) by Gianni Vattimo, Luca D'Isanto, David Webb ISBN: 0804739196 Publisher: Stanford University Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 2000 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Beyond Interpretation: The Meaning of Hermeneutics for Philosophy by Gianni Vattimo, David Webb ISBN: 0804729948 Publisher: Stanford University Press Pub. Date: 01 July, 1997 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: The End of Modernity: Nihilism and Hermeneutics in Postmodern Culture (Parallax: Re-Visions of Culture and Society (Paperback)) by Gianni Vattimo, Jon R. Snyder ISBN: 0801843170 Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 1991 List Price(USD): $20.95 |
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Title: Saint Paul: The Foundation of Universalism (Cultural Memory in the Present) by Alain Badiou, Ray Brassier ISBN: 0804744718 Publisher: Stanford University Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: The Puppet and the Dwarf: The Perverse Core of Christianity (Short Circuits) by Slavoj Zizek ISBN: 0262740257 Publisher: MIT Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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