Theology and the Deconstruction of Derrida

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes Notes I want to thank Mark Cauchi, Tom Clarke, and Wallace Katz for reading a draft of my review and sharing with me their comments on it. 1. In Practical Philosophy, trans. and ed. Mary J. Gregor (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), 226. 2. The Five Books of Moses, trans. Robert Alter (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2004). 3. Levinas writes in Outside the Subject, trans. Michael B. Smith (London: Continuum, 2008): “Any reflection on the alterity of the other in his or her irreducibility to the objectivity of objects and [to] the being of beings must recognize the new perspective that Buber opened–and find encouragement in it” (31). He also observes that the “justice and charity whose message the Bible bears were difficult, until Buber's time [I and Thou was published in 1923], to integrate with philosophical reason, [which had been] constructed for a cosmology situating God in relation to the world and positing God, in a way, as a superlative of being” (9)

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