The Sacrament of Desire
The Poetics of Fyodor Dostoevsky and Friedrich Nietzsche in Critical Dialogue with Henri de Lubac
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The Sacrament of Desire
The Poetics of Fyodor Dostoevsky and Friedrich Nietzsche in Critical Dialogue with Henri de Lubac
About this book
This book explores the political-theological implications of sacramental desire in Fyodor Dostoevsky`s The Brothers Karamazov with Friedrich Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra in critical dialogue with Henri de Lubac. Suderman demonstrates how the work of de Lubac, Dostoevsky, and Nietzsche address a transcendent desire for a higher social and political unity in late-modern Western cultures and the imperialistic and coercive tendencies latent within it, concretely expressed in the Western church and the modern state. Specifically, this book investigates how Dostoevsky and Nietzsche envision new forms of political embodiment that are neither escapist nor imperialist. Through a detailed examination of Zarathustra's dramatic discovery of the eternal return and Alyosha's mystical experience of the resurrection, Suderman demonstrates the metaphysical significance of their respective political ethics. While the intent of de Lubac is to recover the social implications of the sacraments of Roman Catholicism, Nietzsche and Dostoevsky espouse alternative articulations of community and the sacramental desire necessary for such embodiment, a desire rooted in their respective perceptions of God.
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Translation of Primary Texts
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: The Politics of the Sacrament in the Theology of Henri de Lubac
- Chapter 2: Karamazovian Desire and the Politics of the Inquisitor in The Brothers Karamazov
- Chapter 3: Dionysian Desire and the Church and the Modern State in Zarathustra
- Chapter 4: Eternal Return and the Politic of Friendship in Zarathustra
- Chapter 5: The Mysticism of Resurrection and the Sacrament of Friendship in The Brothers Karamazov
- Conclusion
- Bibliography