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Kantian Transpositions: Derrida and the Philosophy of Religion

By Eddis N. Miller

Book information

Publisher
Northwestern University Press
Year
2014
ISBN
0810129809, 9780810129801
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
529 kB (541887 bytes)
Pages
152\149
Orientation
portrait
Paginated
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2016-02-23 15:53:20
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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 such a transposition. 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.

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