Religion by Editors Jacques Derrida And Gianni Vattimo (PDF)

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⭐This is a very saddening book in which these authors, who have helped to move our thinking away from some of the remnants of religion over which we continue to trip, express their (perhaps elderly, not to say senile) longing for old-time religion itself. Not only that, but they suggest, as opponents of postmodernism or pragmatism do, that outgrowing the tiresome remnants of religion found in the arrogant self-descriptions of scientists or ethicists actually allows (or is it causes?) “the return of religion” – an event which they claim to be witnessing although they offer little argument for its existence or desirability. They seem (and, of course, each takes a slightly different tack) to be arguing ad populum instead of admitting their desire for religion. They explain that people are scared by nuclear proliferation and environmental destruction and are turning to religion, but do not address whether such false comfort should be joined in. Rather, they simply join in it – without, however, ever quite saying so. Not one of them writes “I believe in God,” but each asserts by every word he writes “God is worth writing about.”

⭐Jacques Derrida’s contribution to this seminar which was held in 1994 on the island of Capri is the essay entitled “Faith and Knowledge.” What is particularly interesting about this keynote address is Derrida’s neologism “globalatinization” which he defines as “this strange alliance of Christianity, as the experience of the death of God, and tele-technoscientific capitalism.” There is talk of religion and digitality, airborn pilgrimages to Mecca, Jerusalem and its three monotheisms watched over by the heavenly and monstrous glance of CNN, a Pope versed in televisual rhetoric, miracles transmitted live followed by commercials, and lastly the televisual diplomacy of the Dalai Lama. Because Capri is an island not far from Rome, Derrida also has some interesting things to say about religion in the Mediterranean and the Levant, as well as the Promised Land and the desert. This essay is particularly opaque and beautiful and it would definitely help the reader if he or she is familiar with Martin Heidegger’s Sein und Zeit (Being And Time) as well as Beitrage zur Philosophie (Contributions to Philosophy), as JD name drops the great German philosopher’s ideas here and there throughout this essay. This is definitely good beach reading.

⭐Derrida and Vattimo’s collection of essays given on the Isle of Capri truly shows how even postmodern philosophy must still come front-and-center with the question of religion. As postmodernity brings an end to the metaphysics that made God undesirable, a different type of God, a God of Life (as Unamuno would call it) must be dealt with anew. Derrida, Vattimo, Gadamar, Vitiello, Trias and others discuss the role of religion in an age that claims to be so removed from it.My personal impression of the book is that Derrida reveals the type of religious issues that he offered us in his _Circumfessions_ and is wonderfully explicated in John Caputo’s _Prayers and Tears of Jacques Derrida_. Vitiello’s essay “Toward a Topology of the Religious” is insightful and necessary (if only Nietzsche could have read it!).

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