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

• 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.

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...

Table of Contents:

• 1 Introduction
• 2 Visual Anteprima
• 3 Limbo
• 4 Crisis
• 5 Modernity: A Limboic Fool's Paradise
• 6 Extraduction: Ascent out of Limbo.