Erring: Post-modern A/theology - Hardcover

Taylor

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0226791416 ISBN 13: 9780226791418

Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 1984

Synopsis

"Erring is a thoughtful, often brilliant attempt to describe and enact what remains of (and for) theology in the wake of deconstruction. Drawing on Hegel, Nietzsche, Derrida, and others, Mark Taylor extends—and goes well beyond—pioneering efforts. . . . The result is a major book, comprehensive and well-informed."—G. Douglas Atkins, Philosophy and Literature

"Many have felt the need for a study which would explicate in coherent and accessible fashion the principal tenets of deconstruction, with particular attention to their theological implications. This need the author has addressed in a most impressive manner. The book's effect upon contemporary discussion is apt to be, and deserves to be, far-reaching."—Walter Lowe, Journal of Religion

About this title

From the Back Cover:

The Erring a/theologian is driven to consider and reconsider errant notions: transgression, subversion, mastery, utility, consumption, domination, narcissism, nihilism, possession, uncanniness, repetition, tropes, writing dissemination, dispossession, expropriation, impropriety, anonymity, spending, sacrificed, death, desire, delight, wandering, aberrance, carnival, comedy, superficiality, carnality, duplicity, shiftiness, undecidability, and spinning.

About the Author:

Mark C. Taylor is professor of religion and chair of the Department of Religion at Columbia University. His most recent book is "After God," also published by the University of Chicago Press.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Publication date: 1984
• ISBN 10: 0226791416
• ISBN 13: 9780226791418
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 232