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Let me begin by congratulating Professor Caputo for his very lucid presentation of postmodernism and its potential as a philosophy of religion. I also want to thank him for writing two very helpful introductions and commentaries on Derrida, Deconstruction in a Nutshell: a Conversation with Jacques Derrida and The Prayers and Tears of Jacques Derrida: Religion without Religion.1 Prayers and Tears, especially, is a masterpiece of exposition, analysis, and composition, which I would enthusiastically recommend to all students of Derrida. So much of what he says in the paper presupposes his much more elaborate and extensive analyses in these two works. My dialogue will be primarily with Derrida and his works, and with Professor Caputo in his two works as interpreter and defender of Derrida.
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John D. Caputo (ed.), Deconstruction in a Nutshell: a Conversation with Jacques Derrida (New York: Fordham University Press, 1997)
and John D. Caputo, The Prayers and Tears of Jacques Derrida: Religion without Religion ( Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1997 ).
Jacques Derrida, Margins of Philosophy, trans. Alan Bass (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1982 ), 6;
Jacques Derrida, On the Name, ed. Thomas Dutoit and trans. David Wood, John P. Leavey, Jr. and Ian McLeod ( Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1995 ), 68;
Jacques Derrida, ‘How to Avoid Speaking: Denials’, in Harold Coward and Toby Foshay (eds), Derrida and Negative Theology ( Albany: SUNY Press, 1992 ), 77–83.
Jacques Derrida, The Gift of Death, trans. David Wills (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995 ), 83–4.
Ibid., 124; see also Jacques Derrida, The Specters of Marx, trans. Peggy Kamuf ( New York: Routledge, 1994 ), 31.
Specters of Marx 59; Gift of Death 49; Jacques Derrida, ‘Faith and Knowledge: the Two Sources of ‘Religion’ at the Limits of Reason Alone’, in Jacques Derrida and Gianni Vattimo (eds), Religion (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998), 17–18.
Emmanuel Levinas, ‘The Trace of the Other’, in Mark C. Taylor (ed.), Deconstruction in Context: Literature and Philosophy ( Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986 ), 346.
Sean Hand (ed.), The Levinas Reader ( Oxford: Blackwell, 1989 ), 28.
Jacques Derrida, ‘Deconstruction and the Other’, in Richard Kearney (ed.), Dialogues with Contemporary Continental Thinkers ( Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 1984 ), 119.
Paul Tillich, The Courage to Be ( New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1952 ).
Karl Rahner, Prayers and Meditations ( New York: Seabury Press, 1980 ), 35.
For an elaboration of the concept and morality of collective action as distinguished from those of individual action, see Anselm Kyongsuk Min, Dialectic of Salvation: Issues in Theology of Liberation ( Albany: State University of New York Press, 1989 ), 104–15.
Richard J. Bernstein, ‘An Allegory of Modernity/Postmodernity: Habermas and Derrida’, in Gary B. Madison (ed.), Working through Derrida ( Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1993 ), 227;
Thomas McCarthy, ‘The Politics of the Ineffable: Derrida’s Deconstructionism’, The Philosophical Forum 21: 1–2 (Fall-Winter, 1989–90), 146–68.
William James, The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy (New York: Dover Publications, 1956; originally published by Longmans, Green & Co., 1897), 17–19.
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Min, A.K. (2001). The Other without History and Society — a Dialogue with Derrida. In: Phillips, D.Z., Tessin, T. (eds) Philosophy of Religion in the 21st Century. Claremont Studies in the Philosophy of Religion. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403907547_11
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