The author examines how social change and philosophical crisis in the 1980s created the conditions for the return of religion to contemporary French intellectual life. It highlights a critical conjuncture in recent French history when religion was revitalized in French secularism as an expression of individual identity.

ENDA MCCAFFREY is Reader in French at Nottingham Trent University, UK. He is the author of a number of books includingThe Gay Republic: Sexuality, Citizenship and Subversion in France (2005). He has been working in French cultural studies for a number of years, co-edited a collection of essays calledFrench Cultural Debates (2001) and has also published on French cinema.

Acknowledgements Introduction PART I: HISTORY AND CONTEXT The Return of Religion in France Theology and Sexual Ethics Post-secularism, Belief and Being as Event PART II:PHILOSOPHY AND CONCEPTS The Postmetaphysical Postsubjectivity The 'Broken Cogito' and Textual Subjectivity Posteventality Conclusion Bibliography Index