The Trespass of the Sign Deconstruction, Theology, and Philosophy

by Hart, Kevin

• ISBN13: 9780823220502
• ISBN10: 0823220508
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-01-01
• Publisher: Fordham University Press

Summary

The Trespass of the Sign offers a clear and thorough account of the relations between deconstruction and theology. Kevin Hart argues that, contrary to popular thought on the topic, deconstruction does not have an antitheological agenda. Rather, deconstruction seeks to question the metaphysics of any theology. Hart pays particular attention to mystical theology as nonmetaphysical theology.

Author Biography

Kevin Hart is Professor of English and Comparative Literature, and teaches courses in religion and theology, at Monash University in Australia.

Table of Contents

Introduction to the 2000 Edition	ix
Preface	xxxiii
I Confrontation
Interpretation, signs and God	3	(37)
Philosophy and the Fall	3	(18)
Clarifications	21	(13)
Odium theologiæ	34	(6)
Deconstruction otherwise	40	(31)
Immanent critique	42	(5)
Liberator theologiæ	47	(17)
The context of discussion	64	(7)
Metaphysics and theology	71	(36)
`Ground' and critique	71	(4)
`Onto-theology'	75	(21)
Non-metaphysical theologies	96	(11)
II Examination
The status of deconstruction	107	(31)
Problems of definition	107	(10)
Interpretations of interpretation	117	(11)
Erasure and palæonymy	128	(10)
Questions of scope	138	(35)
`Oppositions': Rousseau and Nietzsche	140	(10)
Allegory and irony	150	(13)
Whose `general text'?	163	(10)
III Dialogue
The economy of mysticism	173	(34)
A restricted economy	174	(9)
Derrida and mysticism	183	(11)
From a restricted to a general economy	194	(13)
Kant: mysticism and parerga	207	(30)
Mysticism and the `death of philosophy'	208	(11)
Kant's hermeneutics and negative theology	219	(7)
Kant and Derrida	226	(11)
Heidegger: the revealing and concealing of mysticism	237	(62)
Philosophy, mysticism and tone	238	(14)
God and Being	252	(13)
Negative theology redivivus	265	(6)
Appendix to the 2000 Edition
The God Effect	271	(28)
Bibliography	299	(14)
Index of people	313	(4)
Index of topics	317