Open AccessIdiom i imię Boga
Author(s) -
Urszula Idziak-Smoczyńska
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
zeszyty naukowe uniwersytetu jagiellońskiego. studia religiologica/studia religiologica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2084-4077
pISSN - 0137-2432
DOI - 10.4467/20844077sr.20.020.13038
Subject(s) - impossibility , tower of babel , transcendental number , philosophy , identity (music) , deconstruction (building) , literature , linguistics , tower , epistemology , theology , art , history , aesthetics , law , ecology , archaeology , political science , biology
Idiom and the Name of GodIn this article the author follows Derrida’s deconstruction of the Babel tower parable, showing how God’s name is structured by difference, instead of identity. The story of the tower of Babel introduces not only the origin of languages and the necessity of translation, but the ultimate untranslatable – the name. God’s name, hence every name becomes for Derrida another quasi-transcendental, which conditions of possibility (identity) are concurrently conditions of impossibility (difference).