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Religion

- Rereading What Is Bound Together

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With this profound final work, completed in the days leading up to his death, Michel Serres presents a vivid picture of his thinking about religion¿a constant preoccupation since childhood¿thereby completing Le Grand Récit, the comprehensive explanation of the world and of humanity to which he devoted the last twenty years of his life. Themes from Serres's earlier writings¿energy and information, the role of the media in modern society, the anthropological function of sacrifice, the role of scientific knowledge, the problem of evil¿are reinterpreted here in the light of the Old Testament accounts of Isaac and Jonah and a variety of Gospel episodes, including the Three Wise Men of the Epiphany, the Transfiguration, Peter's denying Christ, the Crucifixion, Emmaus, and the Pentecost. Monotheistic religion, Serres argues, resembles mathematical abstraction in its dazzling power to bring together the real and the virtual, the natural and the transcendent; but only in its Christian embodiment is it capable of binding together human beings in such a way that partisan attachments are dissolved and a new era of history, free for once of the lethal repetition of collective violence, can be entered into.

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  • Sprog:
  • Engelsk
  • ISBN:
  • 9781503631496
  • Indbinding:
  • Paperback
  • Sideantal:
  • 216
  • Udgivet:
  • 5. april 2022
  • Størrelse:
  • 217x140x16 mm.
  • Vægt:
  • 290 g.
  • 8-11 hverdage.
  • 20. november 2024
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With this profound final work, completed in the days leading up to his death, Michel Serres presents a vivid picture of his thinking about religion¿a constant preoccupation since childhood¿thereby completing Le Grand Récit, the comprehensive explanation of the world and of humanity to which he devoted the last twenty years of his life.
Themes from Serres's earlier writings¿energy and information, the role of the media in modern society, the anthropological function of sacrifice, the role of scientific knowledge, the problem of evil¿are reinterpreted here in the light of the Old Testament accounts of Isaac and Jonah and a variety of Gospel episodes, including the Three Wise Men of the Epiphany, the Transfiguration, Peter's denying Christ, the Crucifixion, Emmaus, and the Pentecost. Monotheistic religion, Serres argues, resembles mathematical abstraction in its dazzling power to bring together the real and the virtual, the natural and the transcendent; but only in its Christian embodiment is it capable of binding together human beings in such a way that partisan attachments are dissolved and a new era of history, free for once of the lethal repetition of collective violence, can be entered into.

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