Contemporary Philosophical “Faith” without “Belief”: A Case of Jean-Luc Nancy
| dc.creator | Titans, Normunds | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2013-09-02T03:36:02Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2013-09-02T03:36:02Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2013-09-02 | |
| dc.description | One of the characteristics of contemporary philosophy, at least in its phenomenological-poststructuralist lineage, is a kind of re/turn to religion. However, this re/turn itself is not properly religious; rather, it represents a “religion without religion”; it is a religion of exit from religion, a religion without belief – as it explores religious themes in a-religious, a-theological modes. At the same time, contemporary philosophy retains a discourse somehow related to “faith”, even if it is a kind of strange “faith”, if one can say so – “faith” in an impossible possibility of some inaccessible alterity opening up within the very limits of infinite finitude of human reason and worldly immanence. It can be deemed faith vis-à-vis religious belief as it is the act of reason relating itself to that which, in it, passes it infinitely, but on a-theological premises, i.e. in the absence of any metaphysical/theological principle, such as “God”, for example. For exploring the theme of this paper – the contemporary philosophical reflection on “faith” – I will draw upon texts of a French philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy. His thinking is especially enlightening in this regard, for he has reflected on the subject of faith particularly, interpreting religious/Christian faith in his own fashion and then recognising these elements of faith in his own thinking when it reaches the very limits of the im/possible. Since Nancy’s understanding of faith cannot be viewed and understood separately from his project of the so-called “deconstruction of Christianity”, before explicating Nancy’s understanding of faith, interpreting it in Lutheran, Spinozian and Kantian terms in contemporary rendering, and also questioning it, I will first lay out and systematise some basic relevant, interrelated themes within this larger context, such as dis-enclosure of metaphysics, dialectic/identity of theism and atheism, auto-deconstruction of Christianity to the sense-of-the-world etc. | |
| dc.format | application/pdf | |
| dc.identifier | http://scireprints.lu.lv/98/1/titans_article_nancy_faith.pdf | |
| dc.identifier | Titans, Normunds Contemporary Philosophical “Faith” without “Belief”: A Case of Jean-Luc Nancy. [Preprint] (Unpublished) | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://dspace.lu.lv/dspace/handle/7/1720 | |
| dc.language.iso | lav | en_US |
| dc.relation | http://scireprints.lu.lv/98/ | |
| dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | en_US |
| dc.subject | B Philosophy (General) | |
| dc.subject | BR Christianity | |
| dc.subject | BL Religion | |
| dc.title | Contemporary Philosophical “Faith” without “Belief”: A Case of Jean-Luc Nancy | |
| dc.type | Preprint | |
| dc.type | NonPeerReviewed |