RT Article
T1 Deconstruction and creation: an Augustinian deconstruction of Derrida
JF International journal for philosophy of religion
VO 66
IS 1
SP 15
OP 32
A1 Cauchi, Mark
LA English
PB Springer Science + Business Media B. V
YR 2009
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1821416678
AB In recent continental philosophy of religion there has been significant attention paid to the Abrahamic doctrines of creation ex nihilo and divine omnipotence, especially by deconstructive thinkers such as Derrida, Caputo, and Keller. For these thinkers, the doctrine represents a form of agency that does violence to various forms of alterity. While broadly supportive of their fundamental philosophical and ethico-political views, especially about the primordiality of alterity, I differ from them in that I argue that creation ex nihilo articulates the very structure of the alterity they are concerned with. The essay proceeds through a reading of Derrida’s representation of the doctrine and a “deconstruction” of his view by means of a reading of Augustine and Anselm.
K1 Catherine
K1 Keller
K1 John
K1 Caputo
K1 Anselm
K1 Augustine
K1 Deconstruction
K1 creation ex nihilo
K1 Jacques
K1 Derrida
DO 10.1007/s11153-008-9192-7