| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: monographic
|
| Title Information: |
toward a semiotics of the event |
| Author: |
RaschkeCarl A, |
| Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: |
Project Muse |
| Place of Publication: |
Charlottesville |
| Published: |
University of Virginia Press; |
| Year of Publication: |
c2012 |
| Description: |
1 online resource (248 p.). |
| Series: |
Studies in religion and culture |
| Subject: |
Postmodernism - Religious aspects - |
| Subject: |
Semiotics - Religious aspects - |
| Personal Subject: |
Zizek - Slavoj - |
| Personal Subject: |
Badiou - Alain - |
| Personal Subject: |
Derrida - Jacques - |
| Online resource: |
http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780813933085/ |
| Notes: |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: |
9780813933085electronic bk. |
| ISBN: |
0813933080electronic bk. |
| ISBN: |
9780813933061hbk. |
| ISBN: |
0813933064hbk. |
| ISBN: |
9780813933078pbk. |
| Content Note: |
Religion and the semiotic revolution -- Theory and the Deus evanescens: can there truly be a "science" of religion? -- Postmodernism and the return of the "religious" -- Radical religion in the"desert of the real" -- Bataille and Altizer: the sacrificial background of postmodern religious theory -- Levinas and the final à-dieu to theology -- Deleuze and nomadology -- Zizek and the failure of the subject -- Badiouand the prospects for theory -- Conclusion: toward a revival of religious theory |