Number(s) of Future(s), Number(s) of Faith(s): Call it a Day for Religion

• Authors: Joanna Hodge

Abstracts

EN

Encrypted in Derrida’s contribution to the Capri Seminar on Religion in 1994 are three retrievals: of his discussions of speech and of systems of inscription; of a concealment of splittings in the supposed continuities of traditions; and of a complicity between the operations of religion and those of a dissipation of the unities of science, Enlightenment, and knowledge, into proliferating autotelic tele-technologies. These retrievals take place between the lines of this discussion of faith, knowledge and religion, which arrives in two halves, each in twenty-six sections. The first half arrives in italics, as spoken on the day, and ends by invoking Voltaire on toleration and a contrast between Christianity as Institution and Christianity as the legacy of Jesus and the Apostles. The second half, appended as a written supplement, with footnotes, is signed and dated April 26, 1995. Husserl’s epoche arrives as recurrent performance, challenging the unity of Heidegger’s Ereignis; contrasting modes for the arrival of futurity are invoked in a juxtaposition of the names: Kant, Hegel, Husserl, Heidegger, and Bergson, thus providing more than two sources for Derrida’s meditations on religion.

Keywords

EN

alphabets; calendars; dates; encryption; faiths; futures; names; numbers; sources

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Warszawski
• Journal: Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture
• Year: 2021
• Volume: 5
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 64-81

Contributors

author

Joanna Hodge

• Department of History, Politics & Philosophy, Manchester Metropolitan University

• https://orcid.org/0000000262747981

Identifiers

DOI

10.14394/eidos.jpc.2021.0028

Biblioteka Nauki

1930449