The Future of Continental Philosophy of Religion

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What is the future of Continental philosophy of religion? These forward-looking essays address the new thinkers and movements that have gained prominence since the generation of Derrida, Deleuze, Foucault, and Levinas and how they will reshape Continental philosophy of religion in the years to come. They look at the ways concepts such as liberation, sovereignty, and post-colonialism have engaged this new generation with political theology and the new pathways of thought that have opened in the wake of speculative realism and recent findings in neuroscience and evolutionary psychology. Readers will discover new directions in this challenging and important area of philosophical inquiry.

Introduction: Back to the Future
Part I. The Messianic
1. Is Continental Philosophy of Religion Dead?
John D. Caputo
2. Friends and Strangers/Poets and Rabbis: Negotiating a "Capuphalian"
Philosophy of Religion
B. Keith Putt
Response by Merold Westphal
Response by John D. Caputo
3. On Faith, the Maternal, and Postmodernism
Edward F. Mooney
4. The Persistence of the Trace: Interrogating the Gods of Speculative Realism
Steven Shakespeare
5. Speculating God: Speculative Realism and Meillassoux's Divine Inexistence
Leon Niemoczynski
6. Between Deconstruction and Speculation: John D. Caputo and A/Theological Materialism
Katharine Sarah Moody

Part II. Liberation
7. The Future of Liberation
Philip Goodchild
8. Monetized Philosophy and Theological Money: Uneasy Linkages and the Future of a Discourse
Devin Singh
9. "Between Justice and My Mother": Reflections On and Between Levinas and Žižek
Gavin Hyman
10. Verbis Indisciplinatis
Joseph Ballan
11. Overwhelming Abundance and Every-Day Liturgical Practices: For a Less Excessive Phenomenology of Religious Experience
Christina M. Gschwandtner
12. Counter-Currents: Theology and the Future of Continental Philosophy of Religion
Noëlle Vahanian

Part III. Plasticity
13. The Future of Derrida: Time between Epigenesis and Epigenetics
Catherine Malabou
14. On Reading – Catherine Malabou
Randall Johnson
15. Necessity as Virtue: On Religious Materialism from Feuerbach to Žižek
Jeffrey W. Robbins
16. Plasticity in the Contemporary Islamic Subject
John Thibdeau
17. From Cosmology to the First Ethical Gesture: Schelling with Irigaray
Lenart Škof
18. Prolegomenon to Thinking the Reject for the Future of Continental Philosophy of Religion
Irving Goh
19. Entropy
Clayton Crockett

List of Contributor
Index

Sujets

• Philosophie
• Philosophie de la religion
• Religious
• PHILOSOPHY
• Philosophie et théologie
• Philosophy of religion

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• Publié par: Indiana University Press
• Date de parution: 26 juin 2014
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780253013934
• Langue: English

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THE FUTURE OF CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION
INDIANA SERIES IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION
Merold Westphal, editor
THE FUTURE OF CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION
Edited by
Clayton Crockett
B. Keith Putt
Jeffrey W. Robbins
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The future of continental philosophy of religion / edited by Clayton Crockett, B. Keith Putt, and Jeffrey W. Robbins.
pages cm. - (Indiana series in the philosophy of religion)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-253-01383-5 (cloth : alk. paper) - ISBN 978-0-253-01388-0 (pbk. : alk. paper) - ISBN 978-0-253-01393-4
(ebook) 1. Religion-Philosophy. 2. Continental philosophy.
I. Crockett, Clayton, [date] editor of compilation.
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Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Back to the Future / Clayton Crockett, B. Keith Putt, and Jeffrey W. Robbins
P ART I. T HE M ESSIANIC
1 Is Continental Philosophy of Religion Dead? / John D. Caputo
2 Friends and Strangers/Poets and Rabbis: Negotiating a Capuphalian Philosophy of Religion / B. Keith Putt
Response by Merold Westphal
Response by John D. Caputo
3 On Faith, the Maternal, and Postmodernism / Edward F. Mooney
4 The Persistence of the Trace: Interrogating the Gods of Speculative Realism / Steven Shakespeare
5 Speculating God: Speculative Realism and Meillassoux s Divine Inexistence / Leon Niemoczynski
6 Between Deconstruction and Speculation: John D. Caputo and A/Theological Materialism / Katharine Sarah Moody
P ART II. L IBERATION
7 The Future of Liberation / Philip Goodchild
8 Monetized Philosophy and Theological Money: Uneasy Linkages and the Future of a Discourse / Devin Singh
9 Between Justice and My Mother : Reflections on and between Levinas and i ek / Gavin Hyman
10 Verbis Indisciplinatis / Joseph Ballan
11 Overwhelming Abundance and Everyday Liturgical Practices: For a Less Excessive Phenomenology of Religious Experience / Christina M. Gschwandtner
12 Countercurrents: Theology and the Future of Continental Philosophy of Religion / No lle Vahanian
P ART III. P LASTICITY
13 The Future of Derrida: Time between Epigenesis and Epigenetics / Catherine Malabou
14 On Reading-Catherine Malabou / Randall Johnson
15 Necessity as Virtue: On Religious Materialism from Feuerbach to i ek / Jeffrey W. Robbins
16 Plasticity in the Contemporary Islamic Subject / John Thibdeau
17 From Cosmology to the First Ethical Gesture: Schelling with Irigaray / Lenart kof
18 Prolegomenon to Thinking the Reject for the Future of Continental Philosophy of Religion / Irving Goh
19 Entropy / Clayton Crockett
List of Contributors
Index
Acknowledgments
T HE E DITORS WANT to thank Dee Mortensen at Indiana University Press, and Merold Westphal, editor of the Indiana Series in the Philosophy of Religion, for their interest in and commitment to this book. We also want to acknowledge the origin of this project, and many of the chapters, at the Postmodern Culture and Religion 4 Conference held at Syracuse University in April 2011. Thanks to everyone who presented at, participated in, and attended this conference, and special thanks to Jack Caputo for asking us to form a committee to read and evaluate paper submissions, as well as put together the conference program. As the final PCR conference, it is a fitting culmination of Caputo s conferences at Villanova and at Syracuse, and a genuine turning toward a future for Continental philosophy of religion, if there is one. Finally, we want to thank Deborah Pratt for her tireless work before, during, and after the conference and David Matusek for his work on the index.
THE FUTURE OF CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION
Introduction
Back to the Future
Clayton Crockett, B. Keith Putt, and Jeffrey W. Robbins
T HE FUTURE HAS always figured prominently in Continental philosophy of religion. Indeed, we might even say that the (relatively short) history of Continental philosophy of religion has been defined by the future. So by way of introduction, our task will be to chart the concept of the future that has animated, inspired, and propelled this burgeoning discourse, which, by our reckoning, has both come into its own and reached a turning point, if not a terminal point or a fork in the road. Put otherwise, by posing the question of the future of Continental philosophy of religion, we are posing not only the possibility of a different future than the specific conception of the future that has heretofore been determinative, but also the possibility of overlapping futures, and thus, an alternative conception of time-not only a future structured by diff rance , but a plurality of temporalities that makes genuine change and difference possible.
We are asking this question now because now is precisely the time when different futures are appearing on the horizon with the intention of sparking still different thoughts about what the future might hold, and what hold the future might still have on what is a relatively young discourse. So, for instance, what comes next after the death of the generation consisting of Derrida, Deleuze, Foucault, and Levinas-the so-called 68ers? Is there a future afterlife for those thinkers who have left such a deep impact on Continental philosophy of religion? Or after the 68ers, or even after the afterlife of the 68ers, what new constellations of thinkers or movements will be most determinative in shaping the future of Continental philosophy of religion? Secondly, is there a politics of Continental philosophy of religion? Does Continental philosophy of religion have its very own political theology? It is with this question that the concepts of liberation and sovereignty get embroiled with money and capitalism, or with Western culture more generally, leading inexorably to the question of whether there is a home for postcolonialism within Continental philosophy of religion? Or is Continental philosophy of religion still awaiting its own liberation, and maybe even its own decolonization? Thirdly, with whom or what is Continental philosophy of religion in conversation? In what ways do the burgeoning discourses on speculative realism, the new materialism, and the new findings in the neurosciences and evolutionary psychology open new pathways for thought?
The above sentiment and questions give this volume birth. By speculating on the future, the volume is marking the time of the present as a time of transition-a time of overlapping and, frequently, contesting futures. What we can tentatively say about this future is that it is both radically open and highly determined. This is not a contradiction. On the contrary, it is because the future is overly determined that it can be understood to be open. The future is not a blank slate and does not open up into an empty void. Instead, what we will see is that the future of Continental philosophy of religion has a determinate past. We might even say that it has a pedigree-a DNA that is known by its names, styles of thought, and problems both known and unknown. This pedigree opens up future possibilities even as it determines access. Continental philosophy of religion has heretofore has been largely a deconstructive and post- (if not anti-) metaphysical philosophy. Its preferred methodology has been that of phenomenology, its ethics an ethics of radical alterity, and as for its politics, or whether there could even be a politics of Continental philosophy of religion, that was a question left to others.
The above situation explains why it is only now that the future of Continental philosophy of religion can be asked, now that that single determinate future has been punctured. To put it bluntly: if deconstructive philosophy has been the de facto philosophy of Continental philosophy of religion, that path forward will now have to be forged without Derrida; it must become a thinking of what deconstruction left unthought. And so we observe that while the theological turn in phenomenology continues to be disputed, there are new figures and schools of thought ranging from Alain Badiou to Radical Orthodoxy that have effected their own metaphysical becoming of Continental philosophy of religion. Likewise, whether it is from the aforementioned Badiou or Radical Orthodoxy, their frequent interlocutor Slavoj i ek, or even the Italian triumvirate of Giorgio Agamben, Antonio Negri, and Gianni Vattimo, there has also been a political becoming of Continental philosophy of religion, a growing recognition that any philosophy of religion that does not take up directly the omnipresence and apparent omnipotence of global capital is a philosophy of outmoded religiosity, if not necrotic theology of a dead God.
What we are suggesting, therefore, about the future of Continental philosophy of religion is that we have come to a time when it is more about its many different futures-from the single to the plural, and from the indeterminate to the multitudinous. These are not just different futures, but a different concept