RT Article
T1 The "Light of Light Beyond Light": Derrida’s "Question" and the Meta-ontological Origins of Philosophy and Violence
JF Journal for continental philosophy of religion
VO 1
IS 2
SP 258
OP 276
A1 Raschke, Carl A. 1944-
LA English
PB Brill
YR 2019
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1835754082
AB Despite Jürgen Habermas’ famous suggestion that the violence of history might be mitigated by "the liquidation of unconditional claims," the issue of whether monotheistic religions and the metaphysical rationality they engender are indeed the hidden source of such violence remains an open one. This essay explores how Derrida with his project "deconstruction" sought to deal in a manner unique to philosophy with the question of the relationship between violence, the unconditional, and the ontological. It proposes that Derrida’s "Jew-Greek" dilemma, which encapsulates the problem of the "violence" of metaphysics, is resolved through Levinas’ project of disrupting Husserlian phenomenology with an alterity that is not simply a heteron that disintermediates the logic of predication, but one that challenges what is normally meant by philosophy itself.
K1 Being
K1 Emmanuel Levinas
K1 Jacques Derrida
K1 Walter Benjamin
K1 Deconstruction
K1 Metaphysics
K1 Ontology
K1 Violence
DO 10.1163/25889613-00102006