Kantian transpositions : Derrida and the philosophy of religion / Eddis N. Miller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Miller, Eddis N., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804.

Derrida, Jacques.

Religion--Philosophy.

Religion.

Derrida, Jacques--Religion.

Faith and reason.

Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804--Influence.

Kant, Immanuel.

Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804--Religion.

Physical Description:

xv, 132 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2014.

Summary:

Kantian Transpositions presents an important new reading of Jacques Derrida's writings on religion and ethics. Eddis Miller argues that Derrida's late texts on religion constitute an interrogation of the meaning and possibility of a "philosophy of religion." It is the first book to fully engage Derrida's claim, in "Faith and Knowledge: The Two Sources of 'Religion' at the Limits of Reason Alone," to be transposing the Kantian gesture of thinking religion "within the limits of reason alone." Miller outlines the terms of this "transposition" and reads Derrida's work as an attempt to enact it. Along the way, he stakes out new ground in the debate over deconstruction and ethics, showing-against recent interpretations of Derrida's work-that there is an ethical moment in Derrida's writings that cannot be understood properly without accounting for the decisive role played by Kant's ethics. The result is the most sustained demonstration yet offered of Kant's indispensible contribution to Derrida's thought. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction

A minimum of theology : Kant's spectral God

Parergonality and fetishism : deconstructing Kant's religion

Derrida and Kantian ethics

Faith, messianicity, and radical evil : the "Kantian" transposition

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 123-125) and index.

ISBN:

9780810129801

0810129809

OCLC:

862589921