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- Title
Touching the Opening of the World.
- Authors
Banham, Gary
- Abstract
In this article I seek to address the way that Jean-Luc Nancy's project of the 'deconstruction of Christianity' relates to the understanding of what might be meant by 'Christian art'. In the process of looking at Nancy's treatment of some signal 'Christian' scenes I describe some ways in which the motif of 'touching' arises as significant for how Nancy addresses the possibility of 'alienation from the world', a possibility that he takes to be central to the self-deconstructive potential of 'Christianity'. Subsequently the topic of the distinction between 'faith' and 'belief' is related to how Derrida understands the notion of the 'messianic' and I conclude with a suggestion concerning how the plurality of 'deconstructions' might complicate the question of what is meant by the view that the 'deconstruction of Christianity' is itself a 'Christian' project.
- Subjects
NANCY, Jean-Luc, 1940-; DECONSTRUCTION; CHRISTIANITY; CHRISTIAN art &; symbolism; MESSIANISM
- Publication
Derrida Today, 2013, Vol 6, Issue 1, p58
- ISSN
1754-8500
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3366/drt.2013.0052