Sufism and Deconstruction: A Comparative Study of Derrida and Ibn ‘Arabi. By Ian Almond
The intersection of deconstructive strategies for reading literary texts and the creative (indeed radical) hermeneutics (to borrow Jack Caputo's phrase) of contemporary theology is becoming the mainstay of an exciting development in thinking about the nature of God and religious texts. Caputo,...
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Format: | Electronic Review |
Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2006
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Literature and theology
Year: 2006, Volume: 20, Issue: 4, Pages: 480-482 |
Review of: | Sufism and deconstruction (London : Routledge, 2004) (Rizvi, Sajjad H.)
Sufism and deconstruction (London : Routledge, 2004) (Rizvi, Sajjad H.) Sufism and deconstruction (London [u.a.] : Routledge, 2004) (Rizvi, Sajjad H.) |
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Summary: | The intersection of deconstructive strategies for reading literary texts and the creative (indeed radical) hermeneutics (to borrow Jack Caputo's phrase) of contemporary theology is becoming the mainstay of an exciting development in thinking about the nature of God and religious texts. Caputo, Jean-Luc Marion and other eminent Catholic thinkers have already begun the process of juxtaposing the hermeneutical and heuristic insights of Jacques Derrida (and other post-Nietzschean and post-Heideggerian thinkers) with foundational scriptural texts and their pre-modern interpreters. In particular, there has been a notable tendency to compare medieval mystics and their playful usage and deconstruction of language with Derridean dissemination and difference. |
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ISSN: | 1477-4623 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Literature and theology
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/litthe/frl051 |