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dc.contributor.author | Debono, Mark J. | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-08-24T05:32:13Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2022-08-24T05:32:13Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2019 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Debono, M. (2019). The blasphemy of Europe/The Europe of blasphemy. In ISSEI XV International Conference, What’s New in the New Europe? Redefining Culture, Politics, Identity;. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego. 241-250. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.uri | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/100945 | - |
dc.description.abstract | In this paper, I consider the utterance of Friedrich Nietzsche’s madman that “God is dead” as the “first” European blasphemy which transgresses the sacred in an attempt to recapture a meaning of life without any reference to God. The madman, after announcing the death of God, asks the following questions: “What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?” The questioning by the madman points to an apprehension that mortals can utilise the power taken from God to invent new games of power. This paper focuses on what I see as a deification of the human, and I politicize its blasphemous character. Though today’s politics appears to be grounded in the “temporal world, the temporal aspect of reality” of our secular age, the metaphor of God is still at work. For secularism implies an “understanding in which our moral, spiritual or religious experience and search takes place,” one which still seeks to express the secular in terms of “what was once theologically thought as realization, fulfilment and plenitude.” [Excerpt]. | en_GB |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess | en_GB |
dc.subject | Blasphemy -- Biblical teaching -- Europe | en_GB |
dc.subject | God | en_GB |
dc.subject | Secularism | en_GB |
dc.subject | Apotheosis in literature | en_GB |
dc.subject | Derrida, Jacques, 1930-2004 -- Criticism and interpretation | - |
dc.title | The blasphemy of Europe / The Europe of blasphemy | en_GB |
dc.type | conferenceObject | en_GB |
dc.rights.holder | The copyright of this work belongs to the author(s)/publisher. The rights of this work are as defined by the appropriate Copyright Legislation or as modified by any successive legislation. Users may access this work and can make use of the information contained in accordance with the Copyright Legislation provided that the author must be properly acknowledged. Further distribution or reproduction in any format is prohibited without the prior permission of the copyright holder. | en_GB |
dc.bibliographicCitation.conferencename | ISSEI XV International Conference, ‘What’s New in the New Europe? | en_GB |
dc.bibliographicCitation.conferenceplace | Łódź, Poland, 2019 | en_GB |
dc.description.reviewed | peer-reviewed | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.18778/8142-286-4.28 | - |
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