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In Kierkegaard's Garden with the Poppy Blooms: Why Derrida Doesn't Read Kierkegaard When He Reads Kierkegaard

by Chris Boesel

  • Hardback
  • Publisher: Fortress Academic
  • 15.3 x 22.9 x 2.3 cm

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Chris Boesel invites readers into a Kierkegaardian style literary conceit, creating two pseudonymous voices-one philosophical and deconstructive, one theological and confessional-in order to stage an encounter between two commentaries on Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling. On one level, the contest between the two commentaries demonstrates the extent to which an encounter between deconstruction and Kierkegaard has not taken place in the one place everyone thinks it has, in Derrida's reading of Fear and Trembling in The Gift of Death. On a deeper level, Boesel argues that Derrida's misreading of Fear and Trembling is both source and symptom of a wider problem: an apophatic blind spot in deconstructive engagements with Christian theology in philosophy of religion and postmodern theology. This blind spot erases the theological and ethical possibilities of what Boesel calls a Kierkegaardian confessional faith, possibilities rooted in a "deconstructive deconstructibility" that produces its own deconstructive-like effects. As a corrective to this blind spot, the encounter between deconstruction and Kierkegaard staged here shows how these effects do the very things heralded by self-proclaimed apophatic remedies of "confessional faith" disrupt human mastery over God and neighbor while calling for concrete commitments to justice for the widow, orphan and stranger.
In Kierkegaard's Garden with the Poppy Blooms: Why Derrida Doesn't Read Kierkegaard When He Reads Kierkegaard and Risking Proclamation, Respecting Difference
Risking Proclamation, Respecting DifferenceIn Kierkegaard's Garden with the Poppy Blooms: Why Derrida Doesn't Read Kierkegaard When He Reads Kierkegaard

  • Author

    Chris Boesel

  • Book Format

    Hardcover

  • Publisher

    Fortress Academic

  • Published

    September 2021

  • Weight

    344g

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.9 x 2.3 cm

  • ISBN

    9781978706514

  • ISBN-10

    1978706510

  • Eden Code

    5584986

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