Intensities : philosophy, religion, and the affirmation of life / edited by Katharine Sarah Moody, Steven Shakespeare.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: irritating life, Katharine Sarah Moody and Steven Shakespeare; Section 1 The Politics of Life: Believing in this life: French philosophy after Beauvoir, Pamela Sue Anderson; Agamben, Girard and the life that does not live, Brian Sudlow; Entangled fidelities: reassembling the human, John Reader; Grace Jantzen: violence, natality and the social, Alison Martin. Section 2 Life and the Limits of Thinking: Bodies without flesh: overcoming the soft Gnosticism of incarnational theology, John D. Caputo; From world to life: Wittgenstein's social vitalism and the possibility of philosophy, Neil Turnbull; 'A weariness of the flesh': towards a theology of boredom and fatigue, Kenneth Jason Wardley. Section 3 Life and Spirituality: The spirituality of human life, Lorenz Moises J. Festin; Two philosophies of life, Don Cupitt; Thinking and life: on philosophy as a spiritual exercise, Philip Goodchild; Afterword, Katharine Sarah Moody and Steven Shakespeare; Index.

This book breaks new ground in religious and philosophical thinking on the concept of life. It captures a moment in which such thinking is regaining its force and attraction for scholars, and the relevance of thought to social, cultural, political and religious dilemmas about how and why to live. Bringing together original contributions by highly distinguished authors in the field of continental philosophy of religion, including John D. Caputo, Pamela Sue Anderson, Philip Goodchild, Alison Martin and Don Cupitt, this book has a distinctiveness based on its refusal to sit easily within either s.

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