Trials: Of Antigone and Jesus (Perspectives in Continental Philosophy)

171 Pages·2010·0.94 MB·English

by  William Robert

Trials
Series Board
James Bernauer
Drucilla Cornell
Thomas R. Flynn
Kevin Harr
Richard Kearney
Jean-Lue Marion
Adri •• n PcpcI%1k
Thomas Sheehan
Hem de V rics
Mcrold Westphal
liehael Zimmerman
John D. Caputo, series editor
PERSPECTIVES IN
CONTINENTAL
PHI LO SOP H Y

WILLIAM ROBERT
Trials
Of
Antigone andJ esus
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PnEss
New York • 2010
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Robert, William.
Trials: of Antigone and Jesus I William Robert.-Ist cd.
p. cm.- (Perspectives in Continental philosophy)
Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.
ISBN 978-0-8232-3165-2 (cloth : alk. paper)
1. Jesus Christ-Person and offices. 2. Theological anthropology-Christianity.
3. Tragic. The-Religious aspeccs-Christianicy. 4. Antigone (Greek mythology)
5. Philosophical anthropology. 6. Tragic, The. 7. Deconstruction. 8. Continental
philosophy. I. Title.
BT205.R52 2010
232' .8-<1c22
2009048725
Primed in the United Statcs of America
12 II 10 5 4 3 2
First edition
To my teachers

Contents
Aclmowledg11lellts
Xl
Invocation 1
1 Impossible Love 6
2 Between Nature and Culture 20
3 Surviving, Forever Foreign 36
4 Cryptic Crossing 54
5 Touching Transcendence, in the Flesh 71
6 The Tragedy of Christianiry 88
Opening 103
Notes 107
buux 145
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