Minimal theologies : critiques of secular reason in Adorno and Levinas /
Vries, Hent de.
Baltimore, Md. ; London : Johns Hopkins University Press,
2005.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [659]-700) and index.
Toward a critique of theology -- A possible internal and external differentiation of Habermas's theory of rationality -- Paradox and aporia in Adorno's philosophy of nonidentity -- The construction of occidental subjectivism: reductio ad hominem versus remembrance of nature in the subject -- The breaking apart of western objectivism and the resurrection of the particular and the ephemeral in the philosophy of history -- Metaphysical experience -- Paradox and aporia in Levinas's philosophy of the ethical-religious other -- Levinas on art and truth -- The dialectics of subjectivity and the critique of objectivism -- Loosening logocentrism: language and skepticism -- From unhappy consciousness to bad conscience -- "The other theology": conceptual, historical, and political idolatry -- Appendix: The theology of the sign and the sign of theology: the apophatics of deconstruction.
Adorno, Theodor W., 1903-1969.
Lévinas, Emmanuel.
Philosophical theology.
Rationalism.
Deconstruction.
Dialectic.
Transcendence (Philosophy)