{"product_id":"the-self-emptying-subject-kenosis-and-immanence-medieval-to-modern-paperback-softback-9780823279470","title":"The Self-Emptying Subject; Kenosis and Immanence, Medieval to Modern (Paperback \/ softback) 9780823279470","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Self-Emptying Subject\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eKenosis and Immanence, Medieval to Modern\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAlex Dubilet (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780823279470\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 3 April 2018\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e256 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.4 cm, 0.359 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eAgainst the two dominant ethical paradigms of continental philosophy–Emmanuel Levinas's ethics of the Other and Michel Foucault's ethics of self-cultivation—\u003ci\u003eThe Self-Emptying Subject\u003c\/i\u003e theorizes an ethics of self-emptying, or \u003ci\u003ekenosis\u003c\/i\u003e, that reveals the immanence of an impersonal and dispossessed life \"without a why.\" Rather than aligning immanence with the enclosures of the subject, \u003ci\u003eThe Self-Emptying Subject\u003c\/i\u003e engages the history of Christian mystical theology, modern philosophy, and contemporary theories of the subject to rethink immanence as what precedes and exceeds the very difference between the (human) self and the (divine) other, between the subject and transcendence. By arguing that transcendence operates and subjects life in secular no less than in religious domains, this book challenges the dominant distribution of concepts in contemporary theoretical discourse, which insists on associating transcendence exclusively with religion and theology and immanence exclusively with modern secularity and philosophy.\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Self-Emptying Subject\u003c\/i\u003e argues that it is important to resist framing the relationship between medieval theology and modern philosophy as a transition from the affirmation of divine transcendence to the establishment of autonomous subjects. Through an engagement with Meister Eckhart, G.W.F. Hegel, and Georges Bataille, it uncovers a medieval theological discourse that rejects the primacy of pious subjects and the transcendence of God (Eckhart); retrieves a modern philosophical discourse that critiques the creation of self-standing subjects through a speculative re-writing of the concepts of Christian theology (Hegel); and explores a discursive site that demonstrates the subjecting effects of transcendence across theological and philosophical operations and archives (Bataille). Taken together, these interpretations suggest that if we suspend the antagonistic relationship between theological and philosophical discourses, and decenter our periodizing assumptions and practices, we might encounter a yet unmapped theoretical fecundity of self-emptying that frees life from transcendent powers that incessantly subject it for their own ends.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction \u003cbr\u003e 1. Meister Eckhart's Kenotic Lexicon and the Undoing of Finitude\u003cbr\u003e 2. Conceptual Experimentation with the Divine: Expression, Univocity, and Immanence in Meister Eckhart\u003cbr\u003e 3. From Estrangement to \u003ci\u003eEntäußerung\u003c\/i\u003e: Undoing the Unhappy Consciousness in the \u003ci\u003ePhenomenology of Spirit\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 4. Hegel's Annihilation of Finitude\u003cbr\u003e 5. \u003ci\u003eSans Emploi, Sans Repos, Sans Réponse: \u003c\/i\u003eGeorges Bataille's Loss Without a Why\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52702466834712,"sku":"9780823279470","price":23.66,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-self-emptying-subject-kenosis-and-immanence-medieval-to-modern-paperback-softback-9780823279470","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}