Limbo Reapplied: On Living in Perennial Crisis and the Immanent Afterlife [Paperback]

The observation that our world is signed by a lasting crisis is as much underwritten as it is questioned. This book offers a new and provocative thesis by taking recourse to the religious discourse of Limbo, and by investigating the temporal and spatial structures of crisis and modernity. Modernity reveals itself to be the state of perennial crisis, and we all live in an immanentized state of Limbo.

1 Introduction.- 2 Visual Anteprima.- 3 Limbo.- 4 Crisis.- 5 Modernity: A Limboic Fools Paradise.- 6 Extraduction: Ascent out of Limbo.

Kristof K.P. Vanhoutte is Research Fellow at the University of the Free State, South Africa, and Invited Professor of Philosophy at the Pontifical University Antonianum, Rome, Italy.

The observation that our world is signed by a lasting crisis is as much underwritten as it is questioned. This book offers a new and provocative thesis by taking recourse to the religious discourse of Limbo, and by investigating the temporal and spatial structures of crisis and modernity. Modernity reveals itself to be the state of perennial crisis, and we all live in an immanentized state of Limbo.

Explores the varieties of crisis and addresses the paradox of performing apparently enduring operations at a specified time Expands on deliberations about Limbo, using it as a counterbalance to the concept of crisis Enriches the reader perspective on Limbo and the world in which we live