The Return of Religion in France From Democratisation to Postmetaphysics [Hardcover]

The author?examines how social change and philosophical crisis in the 1980s created the conditions for the return of religion to contemporary French intellectual life. It highlights a critical conjuncture in recent French history when religion was revitalized in French secularism as an expression of individual identity.Acknowledgements Introduction PART I: HISTORY AND CONTEXT The Return of Religion in France Theology and Sexual Ethics Post-secularism, Belief and Being as Event PART II:PHILOSOPHY AND CONCEPTS The Postmetaphysical Postsubjectivity The 'Broken Cogito' and Textual Subjectivity Posteventality Conclusion Bibliography Index

'This rich and impressively broad-ranging book does live up to its interdisciplinary billing, and succeeds in making its powerful case: it is a myth that secular modernity represents the end of religion, and a misconception that it excludes religious belief.' - Christopher Watkin, Murray Edwards College, Cambridge, French Studies

ENDA MCCAFFREY is Reader in French at Nottingham Trent University, UK. He is the author of a number of books including The Gay Republic: Sexuality, Citizenship and Subversion in France (2005). He has been working in French cultural studies for a number of years, co-edited a collection of essays called French Cultural Debates (2001) and has also published on French cinema.