Philosophy in a Time of Terror: Dialogues with Jurgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida
Giovanna Borradori
Language: English
Pages: 224
ISBN: 0226066665
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for Islamic cultures and populations in this context In the course of the last few centuries, whose history would have to be carefully reexamined (the absence of an Enlightenment age, colonialization, imperialism, and so on), several factors have contributed to the geopolitical situation whose effects we are feeling today, beginning with the paradox of a marginalization and an impoverishment whose rhythm is proportional to demographic growth. These populations are not only deprived of access to
the case of japan, which publicly apologized to South Korea for the sexual enslavement of thousands of women during World War II. Derrida's first deconstructive move is to locate the Abrahamic root in the meaning of forgiveness, which links forgiveness to the possibility of expiation. This quickly leads him to expose several pairs of opposites: finite and infinite, immanent and transcendent, temporal and eternal, reparable and irreparable, expiable and inexpiable, possible and impossible.
religare, or to tie, the verb that Tertullian identifies as the origin of the word "religion": "Respondeo, responsum, is said of the interpreters of the gods, of priests, notably of the haruspices, giving a promise in return for the offering, depositing a security in return for a gift; it is the 'response' of an oracle, of a priest. "28 In Derrida's reading, this etymological analysis reveals that response and responsibility share with religion a concern with economic exchange whereby promises
approaching or accounting for a tradition in an immediate or simply neutral way, for the present is the unique angle from which access to the past becomes available. See Hans-Georg Gadamer, Truth and Method, translated by Garrett Barden and john Cumming (Seabury Press, 1975). 7· Habermas, "Europe's Second Chance," in The Future oft he Past, p. 96. 8. Kant, "An Answer to the Question: What Is Enlightenment?'' p. 55 9· The social context in which the "public use" of reason is more obviously crucial
both ofthem. A monadically isolated subject can no more employ an expression with identical meaning than a rule can be followed privately." Jiirgen Habermas, Postmetaphysical Thinking. Philosophical Essays, trans. William Mark Hohengarten (MIT Press, 1996), p. p. 68. 28. Since "a speaker simultaneously does something in saying something, pronouncing a phrase is neither describing what I am saying that I am doing while I do it, nor declaring that I am doing it: it is simply doing it." Habermas,
