Re-reading Derrida’s Faith and Knowledge
1-2 June 2015
A Northern Theory School and Department of Theology and Religious Studies Workshop at the University of Nottingham.
In his enigmatic 1994 essay, Faith and Knowledge: The Two Sources of “Religion” within the Limits of Reason Alone, Jacques Derrida explored the troubled place of religion in late modernity. If Derrida’s essay largely precedes the ‘post-secular turn’ in contemporary thought, it anticipates many of post-secularism’s defining concerns and questions: secularisation, ‘globalatinzation’, religious fundamentalism, the ‘religion’ of technological modernity, violence and terror.
This workshop will be the first ever event dedicated to exploring the implications of Derrida’s landmark essay, 20 years after its original publication...
- What is the significance of the essay?
- How do his reflections anticipate, deepen or question the turn to religion in figures like Habermas or Taylor?
- To what extent might Derrida’s essay serve as a point of departure to explore the past, present and future of philosophy of religion?
Full details of Call for Papers available at the Northern Theory School.
Please contact Agata Bielik-Robson for more information.
Posted on Friday 13th March 2015