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In order to provide greater familiarity with the theme of absurdity, we started this chapter with a survey etymology of the term, followed by a quick mention of cultural expressions as they welcomed the “sense of the absurd” in its various manifestations: literature, philosophy and even theater.

The study of the thought of Camus itself will focus on works that comprise the so-called “cycle of nonsense.” The first occurrence of this “sense of the absurd” are presented in the analysis of his early works, notably The Inside Out and The Law and Marriage in Tipasa , thence to proceed to its expression in the theater with parts Caligula and The Misunderstanding . In these works, Camus has strongly reveals the momentum that launches to life and that, given the inevitability of death, only expand your perception of the hopeless absurdity that man is doomed. Read the rest of this entry »

I want to divide this interview in two parts: in the first part, I would like to ask you about your ideas regarding the present situation of the study of religion and in the second part I want to know your ideas about our global religious, economic and political situation.

Originally published as “The Coming Back of Religion. An Interview with Mark C. Taylor” in Trópico, Idéias de Norte a Sul,  a cultural and academic on-line magazine published by UOL, Folha de São Paulo, Brazil, June 2006. Read the rest of this entry »

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The author explores Kierkegaard´s religious thought, especially the way he understood the notion  of faith.  Kierkegaard´s leap of faith  is the embrace of the irrational as a key component for the fulfilment of a paradoxal risk, a choice made within existence with all its dangers.  The author works with the concepts of  irony, pseudonymous and paradox.  He leads his analysis of Kierkegard thought to the conclusion that he was a poet of the unknown. Read the rest of this entry »

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Liberation theology in Latin America was structured in God’s preferential option for the poor. This option created a new methodology, re-wrote and re-invented new doctrines and postures theological dialogues initiated with new aprceiros and helped spread other liberation theologies of the world. However, this theology was eventually imprisoned for social sciences and eventually repressing and abandoning important aspects of the life of the poor, including the body and sexual practices. This essay will try to show how these “blind spaces” denounce a totalizing discourse in liberation theology and how that theology confined the notion of poor and subject within their own perspectives and acceptable. The thought of three theologians, namely here: Rubem Alves, Jaci Maraschin and Marcella Althau-Reid is analyzed here in an attempt to show how these three thinkers expanded and limited the possibilities of the idea of the poor in Latin American theology. Then, this paper attempts to provide new questions concerning the definition of the poor and their subjectivity complicating his chances. In the end, new ways are suggested for the further development of liberation theology and its possibilities.

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This first chapter of our dissertation aims to offer a few more general information about the life of Camus, with no desire to follow a chronology that covers his entire life. Our intention is just an elaborate backdrop of your life to better understand your thinking. Still, biographical information are scattered throughout the work. In this chapter does not intend to be exhaustive, since more detailed information can be easily found in literature. There are excellent dictionaries, commentaries and biographies are available that describe the life and work of this that was one of the greatest writers of the French language.[16]

His posthumous novel, The First Man , was found on January 4, 1960, inside a folder still as a manuscript of 144 pages. His wife, Francine, and then his daughter Catherine (mother’s name from Camus) eventually give way to publish it only 34 years later, when no one expected. The strength of his daughter of course did not rest on the captive audience of Camus, but about the criticism that would do the work. Catherine Camus defends the relevance of the work of his father justified by the fact that Camus is the best-selling author published by Gallimard. She also says that ”there are indications that today’s intellectuals are returning to Camus. History has given him reason for the fall of communism. Actually, Communism has always been the problem, responsible for opposition to Camus. This has always been first and foremost a political issue. “[17] Read the rest of this entry »