PPR474: Twentieth-Century Religious Thought

Objectives

This module will study the thought of some leading philosophers and theologians of the twentieth century. A limited selection of seminal texts will be studied in context and in relation to their reception and influence across disciplines such as theology, philosophy, linguistics and literary theory. This year, the selection of key texts will be drawn from the works of the following thinkers: Nietzsche, Barth, Wittgenstein, Heidegger, Levinas, Derrida, Taylor and Milbank.

Select Bibliography

Phillipa Berry & Andrew Wernick (eds.), Shadow of Spirit: Postmodernism and Religion (London: Routledge, 1992).

Phillip Blond (ed.), Post-Secular Philosophy: Between Philosophy and Theology (London: Routledge, 1998).

John Milbank, Theology and Social Theory: Beyond Secular Reason (Oxford: Blackwell, 1990).

Mark C. Taylor (ed.), Deconstruction in Context: Literature and Philosophy (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986).

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