The Trace of God: Derrida and Religion

Published by Fordham University Press 2014

The Trace of God

Derrida and Religion

Edited by: Edward Baring and Peter E. Gordon

In the series Perspectives in Continental Philosophy

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823262120

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The Trace of God treats Derrida's discussion and use of religious ideas. Examining his writings both early and late, it provides accounts of his engagement with the Jewish, Christian, and Islamic traditions, offering a variety of perspectives on the meaning of his work and its implications today.

Author / Editor information

Baring Edward :

Edward Baring is Assistant Professor in Modern Europe an Intellectual and Cultural History at Drew University. He is the author of The Young Derrida and French Philosophy, 1945– 1968 (Cambridge University Press, 2011), which won the Morris D. Forkosch Prize from the Journal of the History of Ideas for Best Book in Intellectual History. He has written articles on Derrida and Sartre, which have appeared in Critical Inquiry, Modern Intellectual History, and elsewhere. He is currently working on a Europe- wide history of phenomenology in the period before 1950.Gordon Peter E. :

Peter E. Gordon is Amabel B. James Professor of History and Harvard College Professor at Harvard University, where he teaches modern Europe an intellectual history from the late eighteenth to the late twentieth century, focusing chiefly on themes in continental philosophy and social thought in Germany and France since the 1920s. His books include: Rosenzweig and Heidegger: Between Judaism and German Philosophy (University of California Press, 2003), which received three separate awards: the Salo W. Baron Prize from the Academy for Jewish Research, the Goldstein- Goren Prize for Best Book in Jewish Philosophy, and the Morris D. Forkosch Prize from the Journal of the History of Ideas for Best Book in Intellectual History. He has coedited several scholarly volumes, including The Modernist Imagination: Essays in Intellectual History and Critical Theory in Honor of Martin Jay (Berghahn, 2008); The Cambridge Companion to Modern Jewish Philosophy (Cambridge University Press, 2007); and Weimar Thought: A Contested Legacy (Princeton University Press, 2013). His most recent book was Continental Divide: Heidegger, Cassirer, Davos (Harvard University Press, 2010), which received the Jacques Barzun Prize from the American Philosophical Society. Gordon is founder and co- chair of the Harvard Colloquium for Intellectual History.

Reviews

—Allan Megill:
“Edward Baring and Peter Gordon offer up to us an astonishingly fresh and vivid set of essays that not only cast new light on the work of the greatest philosophical provocateur of the late twentieth century but also provide food for reflecting today on the relations among violence, modernity, secularity, and religion.”

—Samir Haddad:

“Edward Baring and Peter Gordon are to be commended for assembling such a
high-quality collection.”

—Warren Breckman:
Jacques Derrida’s most lasting legacy might well be his writings on religion, which not only restored the dialogue between religion and philosophy but also traced the entanglements of faith and knowledge, sacral and secular. If the perplexed seek a guide, they can do no better than this excellent volume. It explores Derrida’s engagements with religion across the entire span of his career and the vast range of his interests. Bringing together established voices and younger scholars, these essays highlight the complexity and ambiguity of Derrida’s thought and accentuate robust disagreements rather than harmonious consensus.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
“Et Iterum de Deo”: Jacques Derrida and the Tradition of Divine Names Hent de Vries Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	13
Not Yet Marrano: Levinas, Derrida, and the Ontology of Being Jewish Ethan Kleinberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	39
Poetics of the Broken Tablet Sarah Hammerschlag Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
Theism and Atheism at Play: Jacques Derrida and Christian Heideggerianism Edward Baring Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	72
Called to Bear Witness: Derrida, Muslims, and Islam Anne Norton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	88
Habermas, Derrida, and the Question of Religion Peter E. Gordon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	110
Abraham, the Settling Foreigner Joseph Cohen and Raphael Zagury-Orly Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	132
Unprotected Religion: Radical Theology, Radical Atheism, and the Return of Anti- Religion John D. Caputo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	151
The Autoimmunity of Religion Martin Hägglund Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	178
Derrida and Messianic Atheism Richard Kearney Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	199
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	213
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	263
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	267

Language: English
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Pages
- Main content: 296
Keywords: Jacques Derrida; Religion; Atheism; Phenomenology; Judaism; Christianity; Islam

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Published: November 5, 2014
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