Pushing past the constraints of postmodernism which cast "reason" and"religion" in opposition, God, the Gift, and Postmodernism, seizes the opportunity to question the authority of "the modern" and open the limits of possible experience, including the call to religious experience, as a new millennium approaches. Jacques Derrida, the father of deconstruction, engages with Jean-Luc Marion and other religious philosophers to entertainquestions about intention, givenness, and possibility which reveal the extent to which deconstruction is structured like religion. New interpretations of Kant, Heidegger, Husserl, and Derrida emerge from essays and discussions with distinguished philosophers and theologians from the United States and Europe. The result is that God, the Gift, and Postmodernism elaborates a radical phenomenology that stretches the limits of its possibility and explores areas where philosophy and religion have become increasingly and surprisingly convergent.Contributors include: John D. Caputo, John Dominic Crossan, Jacques Derrida, Robert Dodaro, Richard Kearney, Jean-Luc Marion, Frangoise Meltzer, Michael J. Scanlon, Mark C. Taylor, David Tracy, Merold Westphaland Edith Wyschogrod.
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Pushing past the constraints of postmodernism which cast 'reason' and 'religion' in opposition, this title seizes the opportunity to question the authority of 'the modern' and open the limits of possible experience, including the call to religious experience, as a new millennium approaches.
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AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Apology for the Impossible: Religion and Postmodernism JohnD. Caputo and Michael J. Scanlon1. In the Name: How to Avoid Speaking of 'Negative Theology' Jean-LucMarionResponse by Jacques Derrida2. On the Gift: A Discussion between Jacques Derrida and Jean-Luc MarionModerated by Richard Kearney3. Loose Canons: Augustine and Derrida on Their Selves Robert DodaroDiscussion4. Desire of God Richard KearneyDiscussion5. Overcoming Onto-theology Merold WestphalDiscussion6. Fragments: The Spiritual Situation of Our Times David TracyDiscussion7. Apostles of the Impossible: On God and the Gift in Derrida and MarionJohn D. Caputo8. A Deconstruction of Religion: On Derrida and Rahner Michael J. Scanlon9. Betting on Vegas Mark C. TaylorDiscussion10. Eating the Text, Defiling the Hands: Specters in Arnold Schoenberg'sOpera Moses and Aron Edith Wyschogrod11. Revisiting the Body: Virginity Secularized Frangoise Meltzer12. Our Own Faces in Deep Wells: A Future for Historical Jesus ResearchJohn Dominic CrossanContributorsIndex
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Jacques Derrida, Jean-Luc Marion, and others engage the surprising convergences between religion and postmodern philosophy.
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780253213280
Publisert
1999-12-22
Utgiver
Vendor
Indiana University Press
Vekt
467 gr
Høyde
235 mm
Bredde
155 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
336

Biographical note

John D. Caputo is David R. Cook Chair of
Philosophy at Villanova University. He is author of The Prayers and Tears of Jacques Derrida, Against Ethics, and Demythologizing Heidegger.

Michael J. Scanlon is Josephine C. Connelly Chair of Theology at Villanova University.