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Without God:

Michel Houellebecq and Materialist Horror

ISBN-13: 9780271074085
Publisher: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Imprint: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
By Louis Betty
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Local release date: 14/08/2016
Format: Hardback 176 pages Weight: 0g
Categories: Literature: history & criticism [DS]

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Addresses the religious, metaphysical, and existential dimensions of French novelist Michel Houellebecq’s work. Argues that Houellebecq is the foremost contemporary chronicler of the spiritual anxieties of Western and specifically French modernity.

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

INTRODUCTION: THE HOUELLEBECQUIAN WORLDVIEW

Materialist Horror and the Question of Capitalism

Chapter Summaries

Houellebecq as Character: A Brief Consideration

CHAPTER ONE: MATERIALISM AND SECULARISM

Houellebecquian Materialism: A Qualified Case?

Quantum Uncertainties

Lifting the Sacred Canopy

Materialism and Suicide: Logical Consequences of the Death of God

Materialist Horror and Moral Secularization

CHAPTER TWO: THE FUTURE OF RELIGION

The Return of Religion

Can a Cloning Cult Be a Religion?

Elohimism, Islam, and the Question of Religious Discipline

CHAPTER THREE: RELIGION AND UTOPIA

The Fresh Ruins of France

Abandoned Utopias

CHAPTER FOUR: MATERIALIST HORROR

Dangerous Credibility

Lovecraft, Pascal, Houellebecq

CHAPTER FIVE: LIBERALISM IS GOD AND THE WEST IS ITS PROPHET

The Modern Western Woman: A 200-Year Disaster in the Making

As Goes France, So Goes François

A Conversion au conditionnel

Reaction, Romanticism, or Something Else?

NOTES

WORKS CITED

INDEX

“Michel Houellebecq is the most important novelist writing about religion today, and Louis Betty has written the first book to explore Houellebecq’s views on religion. Betty guides the reader through Houellebecq’s oeuvre, makes French discussions of Houellebecq accessible to English-speaking audiences, and situates Houellebecq’s work in the context of recent scholarly discussions about the secular. This book should be of broad interest to scholars of religion and literature as well as to those interested in contemporary French thought.”

—Vincent Lloyd, Syracuse University

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