- Title Pages
- [UNTITLED]
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Epiphanies of the Everyday: Toward a Micro-Eschatology
- Toward a Fourth Reduction?
- Enabling God
- Maybe, Maybe Not: Richard Kearney and God
- Hermeneutics and the God of Promise
- Kearney's Wager
- Is the Possible Doing Justice to God?
- The God Who May Be and the God Who Was
- Christianity and Possibility
- Quis ergo Amo cum Deum Meum Amo?
- Divinity and Alterity
- On the God of the Possible
- Questions to and from a Tradition in Disarray
- Mystic Maybes
- The Maker Mind and Its Shade
- Divine Metaxology
- Theopoetics of the Possible
- Is God Diminished If We Abscond?
- Prosopon and Icon: Two Premodern Ways of Thinking God
- Desire of God: an Exchange
- Richard Kearney's Enthusiasm
- Hermeneutics of Revelation
- God: The Possible/Impossible
- Kearney's Endless Morning
- Reflecting God
- In Place of a Response
- Contributors
- Index
- Perspectives in Continental Philosophy Series
Desire of God: an Exchange
Desire of God: an Exchange
- Chapter:
- (p.301) Desire of God: an Exchange
- Source:
- After God
- Author(s):
Jacques Derrida
John D. Caputo
Richard Kearney
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
This chapter presents an exchange of ideas by Jacques Derrida, John Caputo, and Richard Kearney regarding the desire of God. Kearney opens up the conversation by noting that Derrida has done more than most other living philosophers to make people sensitive to issues of messianicity and messianism and to the three calls of God: donne, pardonne, and abandonne, and by asking how do we read in the dark. Caputo replies that the distinction between the messianic and the messianisms is a tension that people inhabit, and that it would never be a question of choosing one or the other. Derrida, in response to Kearney, states that the essential feature of reading requires some darkness and that it distinguishes reading from seeing. Derrida also discusses the issue of hospitality raised by Caputo.
Keywords: Jacques Derrida, John Caputo, Richard Kearney, messianicity, messianism, hospitality, donne, pardonne, abandonne, darkness
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- Title Pages
- [UNTITLED]
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Epiphanies of the Everyday: Toward a Micro-Eschatology
- Toward a Fourth Reduction?
- Enabling God
- Maybe, Maybe Not: Richard Kearney and God
- Hermeneutics and the God of Promise
- Kearney's Wager
- Is the Possible Doing Justice to God?
- The God Who May Be and the God Who Was
- Christianity and Possibility
- Quis ergo Amo cum Deum Meum Amo?
- Divinity and Alterity
- On the God of the Possible
- Questions to and from a Tradition in Disarray
- Mystic Maybes
- The Maker Mind and Its Shade
- Divine Metaxology
- Theopoetics of the Possible
- Is God Diminished If We Abscond?
- Prosopon and Icon: Two Premodern Ways of Thinking God
- Desire of God: an Exchange
- Richard Kearney's Enthusiasm
- Hermeneutics of Revelation
- God: The Possible/Impossible
- Kearney's Endless Morning
- Reflecting God
- In Place of a Response
- Contributors
- Index
- Perspectives in Continental Philosophy Series