God, the Gift, and Postmodernism (Indiana Series in the Philosophy of Religion)

God, the Gift, and Postmodernism (Indiana Series in the Philosophy of Religion)

by JohnD.Caputo (Editor), Michael J . Scanlon (Editor)

Synopsis

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.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
Pages: 336
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 01 Jan 2000

ISBN 10: 0253213282
ISBN 13: 9780253213280
Book Overview: Jacques Derrida, Jean-Luc Marion and others debate timely issues of theology and postmodernism

Author Bio

John D. Caputo is David R. Cook Chair of
Philosophy at Villanova University. He is author of The Prayers and Tears of Jacques Derrida, Against Ethics, and Demythologizing Heidegger.

Michael J. Scanlon is Josephine C. Connelly Chair of Theology at Villanova University.