Limbo Reapplied On Living in Perennial Crisis and the Immanent Afterlife /

Limbo Reapplied On Living in Perennial Crisis and the Immanent Afterlife /

The observation that our world is signed by a lasting crisis is as much underwritten as it is questioned. This book offers a new and provocative thesis by taking recourse to the religious discourse of Limbo, and by investigating the temporal and spatial structures of crisis and modernity. Modernity...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Vanhoutte, Kristof K.P (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
Edition:1st ed. 2018.
Series:Radical Theologies and Philosophies
Subjects:
Secularism.
Theology.
Critical theory.
Historical linguistics.
Christian Theology.
Critical Theory.
Language History.
Online Access:Full Text via HEAL-Link
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Summary:The observation that our world is signed by a lasting crisis is as much underwritten as it is questioned. This book offers a new and provocative thesis by taking recourse to the religious discourse of Limbo, and by investigating the temporal and spatial structures of crisis and modernity. Modernity reveals itself to be the state of perennial crisis, and we all live in an immanentized state of Limbo.
Physical Description:XV, 258 p. 4 illus. in color. online resource.
ISBN:9783319789132
DOI:10.1007/978-3-319-78913-2

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