Post-modernism and its secrets: religion without religion.

From: CrossCurrents - The Journal of Addiction and Mental Health | Date: January 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

[I]t can be said...that a certain Kant and a certain Hegel, Kierkegaard of course,... Heidegger also, belong to this tradition that consists of proposing a nondogmatic doublet of dogma, a philosophical and metaphysical doublet, in any case a thinking that "repeats" the possibility of religion without religion.

Jacques Derrida, The Gift of Death

I BEGIN WITH A SUGGESTIVE CLAIM: that from a certain perspective the histories of both modernity and postmodernity are religious histories (not histories of religion), organized around an essentially religious secret--a religion ...

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