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In this book, Chris Boesel argues that Derrida's misreading of Fear and Trembling is the source of a blind spot in deconstructive engagements with "confessional faith," erasing the Kierkegaardian possibility of a "deconstructive deconstructibility" that disrupts human mastery over God and neighbor and calls for concrete commitments to justice.
List of contents
Part One: Introductions, Devices, Contexts
1.Derrida, Kierkegaard and What Remains To Be Said
2.Deconstruction, Kierkegaardian Faith and Competing Commentaries on Fear and Trembling
3. A "Sustained Consideration of Religion"? The Professor's Introduction to The Gift of Death
Part Two: Derrida Reads Patöka on Responsibility: The Impossibility of Responsibility
4.Responsibility and the Deconstructive Figure of the Secret
5.The Secret, the Figure of Death and the Impossibility of Responsibility
Part Three: Derrida Reads (and Does Not Read) Kierkegaard on Faith:
Abraham as Figure of the Impossibility of Responsibility
6.God is Silent /God Speaks!
7.Abraham's Blind Unknowing/Divine Promise and Abraham's Informed Expectation
8.Abraham Gives Up Isaac without Hope/Abraham Holds to Isaac in the Assurance of Faith: The Double Movement
9.A Constructive Theological Interlude: The Incognito of Faith, Baptism and the Substitutable Marks of the Christian Life
10.Abraham Has Nothing to Say/What Abraham Has to Say Cannot Be Understood
11.Abraham Is Everyone and Everyone Is God/The "Clearance Sale" and the "Vanishing Point"-Derrida Plays Hegel
Part Four: An Accidental Encounter
12.The Gift, Economy and Abraham's Calculated Sacrifice of Calculation/Derrida's Accidental Reading of Fear and Trembling
13.An Unconcluding Theological Postscript: The Deconstruction of Kierkegaardian Faith as a Limit of Deconstruction?
Appendix: Where Are They Now?
About the author
By Chris Boesel
