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(2009) The return of religion in France, Dordrecht, Springer.
This monograph examines how social change and philosophical crisis in the 1980s created the conditions for the return of religion to contemporary French intellectual life. Building on the democratisation of French society, coupled with the collapse of Heideggerian metaphysics and the emergence of new postsubjective paradigms, this book investigates a conjuncture in recent French history when religion was revitalised in French secularism as an expression of individual identity and resignified within a new strand of philosophical phenomenology. Divided into two parts ("History and Context' and "Philosophy and Concepts'), the text draws on two methodological approaches; socio-historical contex- tualisation to situate the return of religion within the unique binary of democracy and French republican universalism, and philosophical inquiry in which developments in Continental philosophy in the 1980s and beyond transformed the relationship between "subject' (as cogito) and God, transcendence and revelation.
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McCaffrey, E. (2009). Introduction, in The return of religion in France, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 1-9.
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