Katharine Moody - Intensities: Philosophy, Religion and the Affirmation of Life

INTENSITIES

INTENSITIES: CONTEMPORARY CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION

Series Editors:
Patrice Haynes and Steven Shakespeare,
both at Liverpool Hope University, UK

This series sits at the forefront of contemporary developments in Continental philosophy of religion, engaging particularly with radical reinterpretations and applications of the Continental canon from Kant to Derrida and beyond but also with significant departures from that tradition. A key area of focus is the emergence of new realist and materialist schools of thought whose potential contribution to philosophy of religion is at an early stage. Rooted in a vibrant tradition of thinking about religion, whilst positioning itself at the cutting edge of emerging agendas, this series has a clear focus on Continental and post-Continental philosophy of religion and complements Ashgates British Society for Philosophy of Religion series with its more analytic approach.

Other titles in the series:

Re-visioning Gender in Philosophy of Religion
Reason, Love and Epistemic Locatedness
Pamela Sue Anderson

Philosophy, Religion and the Affirmation of Life

Edited by

KATHARINE SARAH MOODY
STEVEN SHAKESPEARE

First published 2012 by Ashgate Publishing

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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Intensities : philosophy, religion and the affirmation of life.

1. Life. 2. Life Religious aspects.
I. Shakespeare, Steven, 1968 II. Moody, Katharine Sarah.
128dc23

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Intensities : philosophy, religion, and the affirmation of life / edited by Steven Shakespeare and Katharine Sarah Moody.
p. cm.

Includes index.
ISBN 978-1-4094-4328-5 (hardcover)ISBN 978-1-4094-4329-2 (pbk.)

ISBN 978-1-3155-8917-6 (ebook) 1. Life. 2. Meaning (Philosophy) 3. Spirituality.
I. Shakespeare, Steven, 1968 II. Moody, Katharine Sarah.

BD431.I58 2012
128dc23

2012018434

ISBN 9781409443285 (hbk)
ISBN 9781409443292 (pbk)
ISBN 9781315589176 (ebk-PDF)
ISBN 9781317114819 (ebk-ePUB)

Katharine Sarah Moody and Steven Shakespeare

Pamela Sue Anderson

Brian Sudlow

John Reader

Alison Martin

John D. Caputo

Neil Turnbull

Kenneth Jason Wardley

Lorenz Moises J. Festin

Don Cupitt

Philip Goodchild

Katharine Sarah Moody and Steven Shakespeare

Pamela Sue Anderson is Reader in Philosophy of Religion, University of Oxford, and Fellow in Philosophy, Regents Park College, Oxford. Anderson has published in Continental philosophy, and especially on Kant, Ricoeur and Michle Le Doeuff. Her books include Ricoeur and Kant (Scholars Press, 1993), A Feminist Philosophy of Religion: The Rationality and Myths of Religious Belief (Blackwell, 1998), Feminist Philosophy of Religion, co-edited with Beverley Clack (Routledge, 2004), New Topics in Feminist Philosophy of Religion (Springer Press, 2010), Re-visioning Gender in Philosophy of Religion: Reason, Love and Epistemic Locatedness (forthcoming 2012) and Kant and Theology, co-authored with Jordan Bell (Continuum, 2010).

John D. Caputo is the Thomas J. Watson Professor Emeritus of Religion at Syracuse University and the David R. Cook Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Villanova. His latest book, The Insistence of God: A Theology of Perhaps, which will appear in 2013, is a sequel to The Weakness of God: A Theology of the Event (Indiana University Press, 2006). He is also the author of What Would Jesus Deconstruct? The Good News of Postmodernism for the Church (Baker Academic, 2007), On Religion (Routledge, 2001) and The Prayers and Tears of Jacques Derrida: Religion without Religion (Indiana University Press, 1997).

Don Cupitt is Life Fellow at Emmanuel College, Cambridge and the author of many books, including Taking Leave of God (SCM Press, 1980), The Sea of Faith (3rd edn, SCM Press, 2003 [1984]), The Long Legged Fly (SCM Press, 1987), The Last Philosophy (SCM Press, 1995), Philosophys Own Religion (SCM Press, 2000), Life, Life (Polebridge, 2003) and The Fountain: A Secular Theology (SCM Press, 2010).

Lorenz Moises J. Festin is a priest of the Archdiocese of Manila. He earned his doctorate degree in philosophy in 1998 from the Pontifica Universit Gregoriana in Rome, Italy. He is currently the dean of the San Carlos Seminary, College of Philosophy in Makati, Philippines. He is also an associate professor at De La Salle University in Manila, where he teaches philosophy and theology.

Philip Goodchild is Professor of Religion and Philosophy in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies, University of Nottingham, UK. He is the author of Gilles Deleuze and the Question of Philosophy (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1996), Deleuze and Guattari: An Introduction to the Politics of Desire (Sage, 1996), Capitalism and Religion: The Price of Piety (Routledge, 2002) and The Theology of Money (Duke University Press, 2007). He is also currently a Senior Fellow of the Rethinking Capitalism Initiative, University of California Santa Cruz.

Alison Martin is Senior Lecturer in French Language at Nottingham Trent University. Her previous publications include Luce Irigaray and the Question of the Divine (Maney, 2000) and Beauvoir and the Transcendence of Natality, in Pamela Sue Anderson (ed.), New Topics in Feminist Philosophy of Religion: Contestations and Transcendence Incarnate (Springer, 2010), pp. 24960.

Katharine Sarah Moody (PhD Lancaster University 2010) is the author of Truth as Event: Radical Theology and Emerging Christianity (forthcoming Ashgate, 2013). Other publications on deconstruction, materialism and contemporary Christianity include Retrospective Speculative Philosophy: Looking for Traces of ieks Communist Collective in Emerging Christian Praxis, Political Theology 13/2 (2012): 18298 and Between Deconstruction and Speculation: John D. Caputo and A/Theological Materialism, in Clayton Crockett, B. Keith Putt and Jeffrey W. Robbins (eds), The Future of Continental Philosophy of Religion (forthcoming).

John Reader (PhD University of Wales, Bangor) is Rector of the Ironstone Benefice in the Diocese of Oxford and a Senior Honorary Research Fellow with the William Temple Foundation (University of Chester, UK). His books include