Investigation into the dangerous interdependence of politics and religion
Simon Critchley is Hans Jonas Professor at the New School for Social Research, and a part-time professor of philosophy at Tilburg University in the Netherlands. His many books include Infinitely Demanding, Ethics-Politics-Subjectivity and, most recently, The Book of Dead Philosophers.
[A] movingly optimistic work ... 'Everything to be true must become
a religion,' Wilde says, and Critchley, poetically and
persuasively, suggests ways in which this might be
accomplished.
*The Guardian*
A a sustained and fascinating reflection on the place of religion
in political discourse.
*New Statesman*
A thoughtful, illuminating exploration ... erudite and
measured.
*Publisher's Weekly*
This version of a faithless faith that Simon is fleshing out in
this book is a radical break in his own thinking ... in this new
book Simon's insights arrive in their most brilliant splendor:
Unlike Derrida's version of truth (and its political important)
that keeps deferring and is always different, here the breakthrough
happens precisely when we are able to confront our own toxic void
and in the suffering of this confrontation we are able to connect
with the immanent other in an act of love in the horizon of a
broken embracement. Like Christ's brokenness on the cross he opens
up a way through suffering that does not cancel out the void and
lack that grounds us, but unites us in the very brokenness
itself.
*Political Theology*
[T]he book amply demonstrates Critchley's many strengths as a
thinker and teacher. Where the book is exegetical, it is strikingly
clear ... Even better, the book displays Critchley's skill as one
of the very best close readers of philosophical texts we have ...
this fascinating and important book traces, as it were, a
trajectory of his thought and is not an end in itself.
*Times Higher Education*
The Faith of the Faithless provides a powerful vision of what our
politics ought to look like.
*Los Angeles Review of Books*
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