Derrida and Religion: Other TestamentsYvonne Sherwood, Kevin Hart Derrida and Religion: Other Testaments represents the most comprehensive attempt to date to explore, adapt, and test Derrida's contributions and influence on the study of theology, biblical studies, and the philosophy of religion. With over twenty original essays from highly-respected scholars such as John Caputo, Daniel Boyarin, Edith Wyschogrod, Tim Beal, and Gil Anidjar, Derrida and Religion will quickly become the locus classicus for those interested in the increasingly vibrant work on religion and deconstruction and postmodernism. |
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... , know it or not.1 When one writes, one is always trying to outsmart the worst. Perhaps so as to prevent it from taking everything away. . .2 In early 2000, a small group of people got together CHAPTER 1: Other Testaments.
... , know it or not.1 When one writes, one is always trying to outsmart the worst. Perhaps so as to prevent it from taking everything away. . .2 In early 2000, a small group of people got together CHAPTER 1: Other Testaments.
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... perhaps the end is coming. The sense of contemporary apocalypse (not unlike the apocalypse analyzed by Catherine Keller and Stephen Moore in this volume) is interesting because, by blurring the roles of Christ and Anti-Christ, it ...
... perhaps the end is coming. The sense of contemporary apocalypse (not unlike the apocalypse analyzed by Catherine Keller and Stephen Moore in this volume) is interesting because, by blurring the roles of Christ and Anti-Christ, it ...
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... perhaps with too much faith in epochs, would configure "the religious" and "the secular" as pure heteronomy and pure autonomy respectively, he maintains that secularization is only a "manner of speaking": indeed, he responded to one of ...
... perhaps with too much faith in epochs, would configure "the religious" and "the secular" as pure heteronomy and pure autonomy respectively, he maintains that secularization is only a "manner of speaking": indeed, he responded to one of ...
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... perhaps also applies, differently, to the figure of the "Jew," slave librarian, keeper of the books, and traditional custodian of Christian theological property. Welcome So, welcome to a space that none of us fully owns or disavows ...
... perhaps also applies, differently, to the figure of the "Jew," slave librarian, keeper of the books, and traditional custodian of Christian theological property. Welcome So, welcome to a space that none of us fully owns or disavows ...
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... perhaps even senses that this very contested and riven site is the perfect "place" to which to welcome deconstruction, which is always "just visiting." But the smooth running of the conference machine also requires the denial that this ...
... perhaps even senses that this very contested and riven site is the perfect "place" to which to welcome deconstruction, which is always "just visiting." But the smooth running of the conference machine also requires the denial that this ...
Contents
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Hostipitality | 51 |
Autochthony and Welcome Discourses of Exile in Lévinas and Derrida | 53 |
Hosting | 63 |
Mary Maternity and Abrahamic Hospitality in Derridas Reading of Massignon | 73 |
The Christian The Jew The Hyphen | 95 |
Rosenzweig and Derrida at Yom Kippur | 97 |
The Word Becomes Text A Dialogue between Kevin Hart and George Aichele | 241 |
Sacrifices and Secrets | 261 |
Sacrifice and Secularization Derrida de Vries and the Future of Mourning | 263 |
Secrets and Sacrificés of Scission | 283 |
Revelations | 295 |
Deconstruction God and the Possible | 297 |
The Revelation According to Jacques Derrida | 309 |
Aporia or Excess? Two Strategies for Thinking rRevelation | 325 |
Christianity and AntiJudaism | 111 |
Messianic Epistemology | 119 |
Midrash and the Magic Language Reading without Logocentrism | 131 |
Creatio Ex Libidine Reading Ancient Logos Différantly | 141 |
Reading a Page of Scripture with a Little Help from Derrida | 157 |
Other Eyes Reading and Not Reading the Hebrew ScripturesOld Testament with a Little Help from Derrida and Cixous | 159 |
To Love the Tallith More Than God | 175 |
Derridapocalypse | 189 |
Otobiographies Or How a Torn and Disembodied Ear Hears a Promise of Death A Prearranged Meeting between Yvonne Sherwood and John D Cap... | 209 |
The Revelation of Justice | 337 |
LaLe Toucher Touching HerHim | 349 |
Touching Transcendence Sexual Difference and Sacrality in Derridas Le Toucher | 351 |
Untouchable | 363 |
Touching in the Desert Who Goes There? | 375 |
El Tocado Le Toucher Sexual Irregularities in the Translation of God The Word in Jesus | 393 |
INDEX | 407 |
INDEX OF REFERENCES | 420 |
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