(free AI image) “19 Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust consume and where thieves break in and steal, 20 but store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consumes and where thieves do not break in and steal. 21 For where your treasure is, … Jacques Derrida and Nietzsche in Sauf le nom (part 6): God’s Ass?

The unknown God of negative theology (not this, not that) is a singularity that overflows attempts a generalizing with an essence, overflowing opposites like thing/non thing, being/ non being – transcending all theological attributes (Derrida, Sauf le nom, 52) in the form A is B.  We assume as our a priori that we have understood … Jacques Derrida in “Sauf le nom” (part 5)

We’ve been thinking about negative theology / apophatic theology with Derrida’s Sauf le nom, the idea of characterizing the divine by negating predicates: wise without wisdom, powerful without power.  It is a kind of language/translating.  It is a being-together or gathering together of singularities (46) that is not just that of a subsuming under a … Jacques Derrida and Søren Kierkegaard in “Sauf le nom” (part 4)

Derrida’s Sauf le nom (Post-Scriptum) begins with a look at apophatic theology (negative theology) and Augustine’s Confessions.  Apophatic theology is the idea that we approach God, not through attribution (e.g., God is all-powerful), but through questioning and negation [“Meister Eckhart cites him often; he often cites the ‘without’ of Saint Augustine, that quasi-negative predication of … Jacques Derrida, Friedrich Nietzsche and Søren Kierkegaard in “Sauf le nom” (part 3)

Martin Heidegger did his major study lecture course on Plato’s Sophist around the same time as Being and Time, and a major focus is Antisthenes on the question of naming. Let’s approach this obliquely with the question on the sciences. Academic fields differ in their objects of inquiry based on the nature of reality they … Jacques Derrida and Martin Heidegger in “Sauf le nom” (part 2)

Heidegger uses the term phenomenology in Hegel’s sense as “uncovering what is hidden” though always already there inconspicuously: making conspicuous. Hegel says the tearing of the sock phenomenalizes the Category of Unity, “as” a lost-Unity. Hegel, in his inaugural address, Heidelberg, 1816, says “The Being of the universe, at first hidden and concealed, has no … Derrida and Heidegger: Phenomenology vs Deconstruction “Sauf le nom (part 1)”