A Greimas rectangle for a new New Atheism

IF 0.3 0 RELIGION Culture and Religion Pub Date : 2018-04-27 DOI:10.1080/14755610.2018.1466818
Eric Chalfant
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Abstract This paper deploys a diagrammatic tool pioneered by structuralist AJ Greimas and developed by Frederic Jameson to explicate the atheism of Slavoj Žižek. Reading the Greimas rectangle as capable of creating dynamic concepts (rather than simply mapping static structures of meaning), I show Žižek’s atheism to be an intellectual inversion of Blaise Pascal’s famous Wager. In light of contemporary criticisms of New Atheist thinkers for adopting a kind of secular fundamentalism, I argue that the Greimas rectangle can point towards novel forms of atheism that maintain open or incomplete ontologies less prone to supporting fundamentalist ideologies.
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新无神论的Greimas矩形
摘要本文采用结构主义者AJ Greimas首创、弗雷德里克·詹姆森开发的图解工具来解释斯拉沃吉泽克的无神论。将Greimas矩形解读为能够创造动态概念(而不是简单地映射意义的静态结构),我认为日耶克的无神论是布莱斯·帕斯卡著名的Wager的智力倒置。鉴于当代对新无神论思想家采用一种世俗原教旨主义的批评,我认为格雷玛斯矩形可以指向新形式的无神论,这些无神论保持开放或不完整的本体论,不太倾向于支持原教旨主义意识形态。
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