The Gift Exchanged: The Gift in Religion

Milbank, John

  • 出版商: Wiley
  • 出版日期: 2024-04-01
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  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 320
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  • ISBN: 1405154845
  • ISBN-13: 9781405154840
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商品描述

Theory and Theology (provisional title)

Edited by John Milbank, Catherine Pickstock and Graham Ward

In recent years the field of theology and religious studies has changed out of all recognition; however there is currently no book series which fully reflects the diverse elements of these shifts and tries to produce new syntheses.

The most important context here is a move of these disciplines from the margin to the centre. This reflects the increased visibility of religion in the world at large. There has been a perceived failure of secular ideologies, now including liberalism itself and an increased loss of faith in enlightenment humanism. This has left a vacuum which only religions appear to be able to fill. Intellectually there is also a growing sense that religion and culture lie so close together that religion is an unavoidable and fundamental human reality. A further factor is globalisation: religions are able to exploit this phenomenon, especially because in world terms they remain very powerful. At the same time this new circumstance is encouraging an intensified conflict between the competing universal visions of the 'great faiths'. Eminent social scientists like Jurgen Habermas are now using terms like 'post-secularism' to define these new cultural conditions.

It is not just within the social sciences that there is a renewed interest in religion. A large group of continential philosophers have become dissatisfied with a purely 'postmodern' approach. These thinkers are increasingly discussing aspects of religion, and include figures such as Zizek, Marion, Chretien, Derrida and Irigaray. In the Ango-Saxon world there have been different but parallel trends in the wake of the exhaustion of the analytic project on the part of some thinkers. Post-analytic philosophy is either more naturalistic or more religious (as can be seen in the debate between Dennett and MacIntyre and Charles Taylor).

The novelty of Theory and Theology would be, in the first place, an explicit foregrounding of the new interaction between theology, philosophy, political theory and cultural studies (including religious studies). Despite the theoretical convergence of certain trends, they often in practice do not come together. Th aim of Theory and Theology would be to make this happen, and thereby significantly to advance contemporary theoretical discussion. We would hope that this would become not just a respected but a renowned series. Possible future contributors would include Zizek, Eagleton, Badiou, Charles Taylor, O-T Venard OP, J-Y Lacoste, J-L Chretien and William Desmond.

We would expect to work closely with Rebecca Harkin to determine the correct mix of titles, but the first 4 or 5 could be:


1. The Gift in Religion by John Milbank. This book would for the first time offer a complete treatment of the debate on the gift in all its ethnographic, historical, philosophic and theological ramifications.

2. Creation and Evolution by Michael Hanby. This book would offer something very original: a philosophical and theological critique of Darwinism in terms of its presuppositions and consequences, which nonetheless in no ways endorses 'creationism' which it rather sees as a modern phenomenon that colludes with its seeming opponent.

3. Work by John Hughes A thorough re-examination of philosophies and theologies of labour.


4. The Lineage of Soul by Catherine Pickstock.

5. Cultural Ethics: Rethinking Christian Socialism by Graham Ward This study would begin with a genealogy of socialist thought, relating both it Marxist and religious forms to cultural shifts in Christianity and politics dating back to the early modern period. It would then go on to examine its demise under the new cultrual conditions of the 1970's and 80's and explore the new contemporary possibilities at a point when, in the West, postsecualrity encounters forms of postdemocracy, postliberalism and posthumanism.































商品描述(中文翻譯)

《理論與神學(暫定標題)》
編輯:約翰·米爾班克、凱瑟琳·皮克斯托克和格雷厄姆·沃德

近年來,神學和宗教研究領域已經發生了翻天覆地的變化;然而,目前還沒有一個完全反映這些變革多元元素並嘗試產生新綜合的書籍系列。

最重要的背景是這些學科從邊緣走向中心的轉變。這反映了宗教在世界上的能見度增加。人們認為世俗意識形態,現在包括自由主義本身,已經失敗了,對啟蒙人文主義的信仰也日益喪失。這留下了一個只有宗教似乎能填補的真空。在智識上,人們越來越感到宗教和文化如此密切相連,以至於宗教是一個不可避免和基本的人類現實。另一個因素是全球化:宗教能夠利用這一現象,特別是因為在世界範圍內它們仍然非常強大。與此同時,這種新情況鼓勵了“大信仰”之間競爭的“普世願景”的激化衝突。像尤爾根·哈貝馬斯這樣的著名社會科學家現在使用“後世俗主義”這樣的術語來定義這些新的文化條件。

對於宗教的重新關注不僅僅存在於社會科學領域。一大群大陸哲學家對純粹的“後現代”方法感到不滿。這些思想家越來越多地討論宗教的各個方面,其中包括齊澤克、馬里昂、克里希安、德里達和伊利加雷。在盎格魯撒克遜世界中,一些思想家在分析項目耗盡後出現了不同但平行的趨勢。後分析哲學要麼更加自然主義,要麼更加宗教(這可以在丹尼特和麥金泰爾以及查爾斯·泰勒之間的辯論中看到)。

《理論與神學》的新奇之處首先在於明確突出神學、哲學、政治理論和文化研究(包括宗教研究)之間的新互動。儘管某些趨勢在理論上趨於一致,但在實踐中它們往往無法結合。《理論與神學》的目標是實現這一點,從而顯著推進當代理論討論。我們希望這將不僅成為一個受人尊敬的系列,而且成為一個有聲望的系列。可能的未來貢獻者包括齊澤克、伊格爾頓、巴迪奧、查爾斯·泰勒、O-T Venard OP、J-Y Lacoste、J-L Chretien和威廉·德斯蒙德。

我們期望與麗貝卡·哈金密切合作,確定正確的書籍組合,但前4或5本可能是:

1. 《宗教中的禮物》(John Milbank著)。這本書將首次全面探討禮物辯論的民族學、歷史、哲學和神學影響。

2. 《創造與進化》(Michael Hanby著)。這本書將以哲學和神學的角度對達爾文主義進行批判,探討其前提和後果,但絕不支持“創造論”,而是將其視為一種與其表面對立的現代現象。

3. 《勞動》(John Hughes著)。對勞動的哲學和神學思想進行全面重新審視。

4. 《靈魂的血統》(Catherine Pickstock著)。

5. 《文化倫理學:重新思考基督教社會主義》(Graham Ward著)。這本研究將從社會主義思想的系譜學入手,將其與馬克思主義和宗教形式與基督教和政治的文化轉變相關聯,追溯到早期現代時期。然後,它將探討它在20世紀70年代和80年代新的文化條件下的衰落,並探索當代新的可能性。