Derrida and the Secret of the Non-Secret: On Respiritualising the Profane
The place of the secret in Derrida's thought has some interesting implications for recent ‘theological’ appropriations of his work—particularly those with a Christian agenda. The aim of this brief article is to express a nagging unease with recent Christian responses to Derrida, an unease borne...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2003
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Literature and theology
Year: 2003, Volume: 17, Issue: 4, Pages: 457-471 |
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| Summary: | The place of the secret in Derrida's thought has some interesting implications for recent ‘theological’ appropriations of his work—particularly those with a Christian agenda. The aim of this brief article is to express a nagging unease with recent Christian responses to Derrida, an unease borne out of a certain understanding of the ineluctably Nietzschean genealogy of deconstruction, in particular Derrida's several comments on the s/Secret. What this paper proposes is that deconstruction is simultaneously a work of both demystification and remystification—it locates and dissolves the moments of self-presence in a text only to leave in their place a semantic void, one which liberates the text from its single destination and allows it to drift, rudderless, in an infinte number of directions. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4623 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Literature and theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/litthe/17.4.457 |