Jacques Derrida
The enchanted atheist
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4480647 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David Tacey (La Trobe University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 110 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 3-16 |
| Publication date | 2012-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Thesis Eleven (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0725-5136 • E-ISSN: 1461-7455 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0725513612449953 |
| OpenAlex | W1983884535 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 8 |
Toward the end of his life, Derrida complained that he had been 'read less and less well over almost twenty years, like my religion about which nobody understands anything'. Derrida, ever the trickster and shape-shifter, had outwitted his audience and even his ardent following by declaring himself religious. This seemed to oddly contradict the universal image of Derridean deconstruction as nihilistic, relativistic, subjectivistic and anti-religious. But Derrida disagrees with this impression of his work, claiming that deconstruction has always been affirmative and has always delivered a yes to life. Deconstruction, according to the late Derrida, is a way of doing truth, of keeping things authentic and open to the possibility of transcendence. He wanted to unravel and deconstruct, not to arrive at nothing, but to affirm a sacred reality that he sensed was undeconstructible. This paper is concerned with the 'other' Derrida that few seem to know
Aesthetics · Art · Epistemology · Literature · Nihilism · nobody · Nothing · Postmodernism · Trickster · Digital Media and Philosophy · Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism · Political Theology and Sovereignty
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,08 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2013 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |