In Kierkegaard's Garden with the Poppy Blooms
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In Kierkegaard's Garden with the Poppy Blooms

Why Derrida Doesn't Read Kierkegaard When He Reads Kierkegaard

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In Kierkegaard's Garden with the Poppy Blooms

Why Derrida Doesn't Read Kierkegaard When He Reads Kierkegaard

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Abbreviations
  9. Part I: Introductions, Devices, Contexts
  10. Chapter 1: Derrida, Kierkegaard, and What Remains To Be Said
  11. Chapter 2: Deconstruction, Kierkegaardian Faith, and Competing Commentaries on Fear and Trembling
  12. Chapter 3: A “Sustained Consideration of Religion?” The Professor’s Introduction to The Gift of Death
  13. Part II: Derrida Reads Patočka on Responsibility
  14. Chapter 4: Responsibility and the Deconstructive Figure of the Secret
  15. Chapter 5: The Secret, the Figure of Death, and the Impossibility of Responsibility
  16. Part III: Derrida Reads (and Does Not Read) Kierkegaard on Faith
  17. Chapter 6: God Is Silent/God Speaks!
  18. Chapter 7: Abraham’s Blind Unknowing/Divine Promise and Abraham’s Informed Expectation
  19. Chapter 8: Abraham Gives Up Isaac without Hope/Abraham Holds to Isaac in the Assurance of Faith: The Double Movement
  20. Chapter 9: A Constructive Theological Interlude: The Incognito of Faith, Baptism, and the Substitutable Marks of the Christian Life
  21. Chapter 10: Abraham Has Nothing to Say/What Abraham Has to Say Cannot Be “Understood”: Witness and Testimony, the Holy Spiri , and the Impossibility of Mastery over Divine and Creaturely Others
  22. Chapter 11: Abraham Is Everyone and Everyone Is God/The “Clearance Sale” and the “Vanishing Point”—Derrida Plays Hegel
  23. Part IV: An Accidental Encounter
  24. Chapter 12: The Gift, Economy, and Abraham’s Calculated Sacrifice of Calculation/Derrida’s Accidental Reading of Fear and Tremling
  25. Chapter 13: An Unconcluding Theological Postscript: The Deconstruction of Kierkegaardian Faith as a Limit of Deconstruction?
  26. Appendix: Where Are They Now?
  27. Bibliography
  28. Index
  29. About the Author