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Derrida's Worldly Responsibility: The Opening between “Faith” and the “Sacred”
Author(s) -
O'Connor Patrick
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
the southern journal of philosophy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.281
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 2041-6962
pISSN - 0038-4283
DOI - 10.1111/j.2041-6962.2007.tb00054.x
Subject(s) - alterity , deconstruction (building) , faith , epistemology , philosophy , relation (database) , phenomenology (philosophy) , nexus (standard) , aesthetics , sociology , ecology , database , computer science , biology , embedded system
This article will theorize how Derrida's deconstruction signifies a fundamental ontological alterity. We will examine the use of both the tropes of “sacred” and “faith” as tropes to express this possibility. We will articulate how deconstruction, as a development of phenomenology, provides a theoretical nexus where the alterity of things and persons may be thought. We will arrive at the paradoxical formulation of “ontological alterity” as a key moment in deconstructive thinking. Essentially we will argue that deconstruction offers the resources to think the relation between other person and things in the world as motivated by a firm radicalization of Heideggerean worldliness and Levinasian alterity.