God, the gift, and postmodernism / edited by John D. Caputo and Michael J. Scanlon.

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9780585164632

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Author:

Caputo, John D.

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Physical Description:

1 online resource (322 pages).

Series:

The Indiana series in the philosophy of religion

Indiana series in the philosophy of religion.

Contents:

In the name: how to avoid speaking of "negative theology" / Jean-Luc Marion ; response by Jacques Derrida -- On the gift: a discussion between Jacques Derrida and Jean-Luc Marion, moderated by Richard Kearney -- Loose canons: Augustine and Derrida on their selves / Robert Dodaro; response by Jacques Derrida -- Desire of God / Richard Kearney ; discussion -- Overcoming onto-theology / Merold Westphal ; response by Jacques Derrida -- Fragments: the spiritual situation of our times / David Tracy ; response by Jacques Derrida -- Apostles of the impossible: on God and the gift in Derrida and Marion / John D. Caputo -- A deconstruction of religion: on Derrida and Rahner / Michael J. Scanlon -- Betting on Vegas / Mark C. Taylor ; discussion -- Eating the text, defiling the hands: specter in Arnold Schoenberg's Opera Moses and Aron / Edith Whyschogrod -- Re-embodying: virginity secularized / Françoise Meltzer -- Our own faces in deep wells: a future of historical Jesus research / John Dominic Crossan.

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Subject Term:

Christianity -- Philosophy -- Congresses.

Postmodernism -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- Congresses.

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Caputo, John D.

Scanlon, Michael J.

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Electronic Resources

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Publication Date:

1999

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Summary

Pushing past the constraints of postmodernism which cast "reason" and"religion" in opposition, God, the Gift, and Postmodernism, seizes the opportunity to question the authority of "the modern" and open the limits of possible experience, including the call to religious experience, as a new millennium approaches. Jacques Derrida, the father of deconstruction, engages with Jean-Luc Marion and other religious philosophers to entertain
questions about intention, givenness, and possibility which reveal the extent to which deconstruction is structured like religion. New interpretations of Kant, Heidegger, Husserl, and Derrida emerge from essays and discussions with distinguished philosophers and theologians from the United States and Europe. The result is that God, the Gift, and Postmodernism elaborates a radical phenomenology that stretches the limits of its possibility and explores areas where philosophy and religion have become increasingly and surprisingly convergent.

Contributors include: John D. Caputo, John Dominic Crossan, Jacques Derrida, Robert Dodaro, Richard Kearney, Jean-Luc Marion, Frangoise Meltzer, Michael J. Scanlon, Mark C. Taylor, David Tracy, Merold Westphal
and Edith Wyschogrod.

Author Notes

Academician John D. Caputo (b.1940) specializes in continental philosophy, described as the interaction among 20th century French and German philosophy and religion. He has written a number of scholarly books including The Mystical Element in Heidegger's Thought (1978), Heidegger and Aquinas (1982), Demythologizing Heidegger (1993), Against Ethics (1993), and The Prayers and Tears of Jacques Derrida (1997). Caputo has been honored in Dublin and Toronto, where conferences have been organized around his work.

Caputo is professor of philosophy at Villanova University in Pennsylvania, where he received his M.A. in 1964. Other degrees include a B.A. from LaSalle College (1962) and a Ph.D. from Bryn Mawr (1968).

(Bowker Author Biography)