Abstract
Certain experiences are beyond words. Other experiences, especially some contemporary ones, are beyond words still in usage. Living in times of (perennial) crisis is one of them. The religious discourse on Limbo helps, however, in understanding this experience of a lasting crisis. This introducing chapter starts our voyage of re-enchanting the world.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Notes
- 1.
Josephson-Storm is obviously not the first, nor will he hopefully be the last to denounce the myth of the disenchantment of the world by means of modern science. Already C. S. Lewis in his The Abolition of Man (2009), to give just one example, clearly reveals that ‘something … unites magic and applied science’ (Lewis 2009, 77), and although it ‘might be going too far to say that the modern scientific movement was tainted from its birth:… it was born in an unhealthy neighbourhood and at an inauspicious hour’ (Lewis 2009, 78), only the ‘fatal serialism of the modern imagination’ (Lewis 2009, 79) can convince itself of the falseness of this fact.
References
Agamben, G. (2011). The Kingdom and the Glory. For a Theological Genealogy of Economy and Government. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
Agamben, G. (2016). Che cos’è la filosofia? Macerata: Quodlibet.
Arendt, H. (1973). The Origins of Totalitarianism. San Diego and New York: Harvest Book.
Bauman, Z., & Bordoni, C. (2014). State of Crisis. Cambridge and Malden: Polity Press.
Capps, D., & Carlin, N. (Eds.). (2010). Living in Limbo: Life in the Midst of Uncertainty. Eugene: Cascade Books.
Graham, G. (2003). Evil and Christian Ethics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Josephson-Storm, J. Ā. (2017). The Myth of Disenchantment. Magic, Modernity, and the Birth of the Human Sciences. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press.
Latour, B. (1993). We Have Never Been Modern. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
Lewis, C. S. (2009). The Abolition of Man: Or Reflections on Education with Special Reference to the Teaching of English in the Upper Forms of Schools. New York: HarperCollins. Kindle edition.
Rosa, H. (2015). Social Acceleration. A New Theory of Modernity. New York and Chichester: Columbia University Press.
Serres, M. (2014). Times of Crisis. What the Financial Crisis Revealed and How to Reinvent Out Lives and Future. New York and London: Bloomsbury Academic.
Sontag, S. (1978). Illness as Metaphor. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2018 The Author(s)
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Vanhoutte, K.K.P. (2018). Introduction. In: Limbo Reapplied. Radical Theologies and Philosophies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78913-2_1
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78913-2_1
Published:
Publisher Name: Palgrave Macmillan, Cham
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-78912-5
Online ISBN: 978-3-319-78913-2
eBook Packages: Religion and PhilosophyPhilosophy and Religion (R0)