Skip Navigation

Literature and Theology 2003 17(4):457-471; doi:10.1093/litthe/17.4.457
© 2003 by Oxford University Press
This Article
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to My Personal Archive
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Almond, I.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us  
What's this?

Derrida and the Secret of the Non-Secret: On Respiritualising the Profane

Ian Almond

Bosphorus University (Bogazici üniversitesi), Istanbul almond@bound.edu.tr

The place of the secret in Derrida's thought has some interesting implications for recent ‘theological’ appropriations of his work—particularly those with a Christian agenda. The aim of this brief article is to express a nagging unease with recent Christian responses to Derrida, an unease borne out of a certain understanding of the ineluctably Nietzschean genealogy of deconstruction, in particular Derrida's several comments on the s/Secret. What this paper proposes is that deconstruction is simultaneously a work of both demystification and remystification—it locates and dissolves the moments of self-presence in a text only to leave in their place a semantic void, one which liberates the text from its single destination and allows it to drift, rudderless, in an infinte number of directions.


Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us    What's this?




Disclaimer: Please note that abstracts for content published before 1996 were created through digital scanning and may therefore not exactly replicate the text of the original print issues. All efforts have been made to ensure accuracy, but the Publisher will not be held responsible for any remaining inaccuracies. If you require any further clarification, please contact our Customer Services Department.