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Description of  The Messianic Now: Philosophy, Religion, Culture

This collection explores the phenomenon of the messianic in contemporary philosophy, religion and culture. From the later Derridas work on Marx and Benjamin to Agamben and Badious recent texts on St Paul, it is becoming possible to detect a marked messianic turn in contemporary continental thought. However, despite the plethora of work in the field there has not been any sustained attempt to think through the larger philosophical, theological and cultural implications of this phenomenon. What, then, characterises our contemporary messianic moment? Where does it come from? And why speak of the messianic now? In Read more