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The Return of Religion in France

From Democratisation to Postmetaphysics

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  • © 2009

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Authors:
  1. Enda McCaffrey

    1. Nottingham Trent University, UK

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vi
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Enda McCaffrey
      Pages 1-9

  3. History and Context

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11
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    2. The Return of Religion in France

      • Enda McCaffrey
      Pages 13-47

    3. Theology and Sexual Ethics

      • Enda McCaffrey
      Pages 48-79

    4. Post-secularism, Belief and Being as Event

      • Enda McCaffrey
      Pages 80-109

  4. Philosophy and Concepts

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 111-111
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    2. The Postmetaphysical

      • Enda McCaffrey
      Pages 113-147

    3. Postsubjectivity

      • Enda McCaffrey
      Pages 148-180

    4. ‘Broken Cogito’ and Textual Subjectivity

      • Enda McCaffrey
      Pages 181-213

    5. Posteventality

      • Enda McCaffrey
      Pages 214-247

    6. Conclusion

      • Enda McCaffrey
      Pages 248-250

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 251-286
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About this book

The author examines how social change and philosophical crisis in the 1980s created the conditions for the return of religion to contemporary French intellectual life. It highlights a critical conjuncture in recent French history when religion was revitalized in French secularism as an expression of individual identity.

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'This rich and impressively broad-ranging book does live up to its interdisciplinary billing, and succeeds in making its powerful case: it is a myth that secular modernity represents the end of religion, and a misconception that it excludes religious belief.' - Christopher Watkin, Murray Edwards College, Cambridge, French Studies

Authors and Affiliations

  • Nottingham Trent University, UK

    Enda McCaffrey

About the author

ENDA MCCAFFREY is Reader in French at Nottingham Trent University, UK. He is the author of a number of books including The Gay Republic: Sexuality, Citizenship and Subversion in France (2005). He has been working in French cultural studies for a number of years, co-edited a collection of essays called French Cultural Debates (2001) and has also published on French cinema.

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