Minimal theologies : critiques of secular reason in Adorno and Levinas

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Minimal theologies : critiques of secular reason in Adorno and Levinas

Hent de Vries ; translated by Geoffrey Hale

Johns Hopkins University Press, c2005

  • : hardcover

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Minimal theologies : critiques of secular reason in Adorno & Levinas

Theologie im pianissimo : zur Aktualität der Denkfiguren Adornos und Levinas'

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Originally published: Kampen : J.H. Kok, 1989

Includes bibliographical references (p. [659]-700) and index

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内容説明

What, at this historical moment "after Auschwitz," still remains of the questions traditionally asked by theology? What now is theology's minimal degree? This magisterial study, the first extended comparison of the writings of Theodor W. Adorno and Emmanuel Levinas, explores remnants and echoes of religious forms in these thinkers' critiques of secular reason, finding in the work of both a "theology in pianissimo" constituted by the trace of a transcendent other. The author analyzes, systematizes, and formalizes this idea of an other of reason. In addition, he frames these thinkers' innovative projects within the arguments of such intellectual heirs as Jurgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida, defending their work against later accusations of "performative contradiction" (by Habermas) or "empiricism" (by Derrida) and in the process casting important new light on those later writers as well. Attentive to rhetorical and rational features of Adorno's and Levinas's texts, his investigations of the concepts of history, subjectivity, and language in their writings provide a radical interpretation of their paradoxical modes of thought and reveal remarkable and hitherto unsuspected parallels between their philosophical methods, parallels that amount to a plausible way of overcoming certain impasses in contemporary philosophical thinking. In Adorno, this takes the form of a dialectical critique of dialectics; in Levinas, that of a phenomenological critique of phenomenology, each of which sheds new light on ancient and modern questions of metaphysics, ethics, and aesthetics. For the English-language publication, the author has extensively revised and updated the prize-winning German version.

目次

Preface and Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction: Tertium Datur Part I. Antiprolegomena Chapter 1. Toward a Critique of Theology Chapter 2. A Possible Internal and External Differentiation of Habermas's Theory of Rationality Part II. Dialectica Chapter 3. Paradox and Aporia in Adorno's Philosophy of Nonidentity Chapter 4. The Construction of Occidental Subjectivism: Reductio ad hominem versus Remembrance of Nature in the Subject Chapter 5. The Breaking Apart of Western Objectivism and the Resurrection of the Particular and the Ephemeral in the Philosophy of History Chapter 6. Metaphysical Experience Part III. Phaenomenologica Chapter 7. Paradox and Aporia in Levinas's Philosophy of the Ethical-Religious Other Chapter 8. Levinas on Art and Truth Chapter 9. The Dialectics of Subjectivity and the Critique of Objectivism Chapter 10. Loosening Logocentrism: Language and Skepticism Part IV. Hermeneutica Sacra sive Profana Chapter 11. From Unhappy Consciousness to Bad Conscience Chapter 12 "The Other Theology": Conceptual, Historical, and Political Idolatry Appendix. The Theology of the Sign and the Sign of Theology: The Apophatics of Deconstruction Bibliography Index

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