Description
This course is a survey of the philosophy of Jacques Derrida, particularly with an eye to Derrida's relation to theology, and questions surrounding atheism, deconstruction, and politics. This course will require extensive readings in primary texts by Derrida as well as three prominent secondary texts. Derrida's thought, implicitly or explicitly, has come to inform or challenge the disciplines and practices of theology, literary criticism, history, and hermeneutics, all of which touch upon or are central to the ministry of the church.