Derrida on Deconstruction and Christianity
In the spirit of my series on Postmodern Theology and Jean-Luc Marion, I thought that it might be interesting to listen to these short snippets (less than 6 minutes a piece) of Jacques Derrida’s reply to a question about the relation between Christianity and deconstruction at a conference in 2002.
Derrida not only says that there are explicit connections between the two, but, also, that Christianity is particularity well-suited—even more suited than other religions—to the task. He calls it “an unpredictable earthquake.”
Agree, disagree, like, or dislike, this should serve to preface my own upcoming deviation in the series on postmodern theology to comment on the unique, and current, ‘theological turn’ we seem to be in the midst of today.
Jacques Derrida On Deconstruction And Christianity – Part 1
Jacques Derrida On Deconstruction And Christianity – Part 2
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Have you seen the website Catholics for Obama … they say that Obama is PRO LIFE.
Of course if you research it … I bet 70% of U.S. Catholics support him. You see they don’t understand morality … sure it’s bad to kill people in wars but it is far worse to kill defenseless fetuses … they they see it the other way round.
John: I am afraid I do not understand what you are trying to convey here. Does this relate in some way to the content of this post? If so, then, why?
Thanks.
Sam,
All meaning results from the endless differe(a)ntial interplay of a thing with what it is not.
You should see the ‘relation’ between your post and the commenters words.
Bad joke…
Mark: Of course, the problem is always a matter of intelligibility to the other. No joke. Well… as a joke it was funny to me. Ha!
Interesting. What Derrida says about Christian is, from his philosophical standpoint, very complimentary.