Given the invigorating discussions that occur on this blog about the intersection of religion and postmodernism, I wanted to just note the publication of a new book that Stephen Minister and I have edited that is likely to be of interest to “Church and Postmodernism” readers. It is entitled, Reexamining Deconstruction and Determinate Religion: Toward […]
J. Aaron Simmons Department of Philosophy Furman University Email: aaron.simmons@furman.edu Let me begin by simply offering the following thesis: The genuinely important negative theological trajectory in much of postmodern/continental/deconstructive philosophy of religion has led to its own problematic dogmatism. Specifically, in the crucial attempt to overcome onto-theology, much of continental philosophy of religion has […]
The idea of “deconstruction” has achieved a somewhat surprising ubiquity in our current culture. In addition to relatively long-standing applications in literary and cultural criticism, deconstruction has also found a home in political punditry and haute cuisine (what does it mean to “deconstruct” a meatloaf anyway?). But perhaps most enamored with the idea of deconstruction […]
This essay articulates how Derrida’s notion of hospitality may help us to overcome structural racism.