Towards a Divine Atheism: Jean-Luc Nancy's Deconstruction of Monotheism and the Passage of the Last God

• Author(s) / Creator(s)

  • Morin, Marie-Eve

• In Briefings on Existence, Alain Badiou calls for a radical atheism that would refuse the Heideggerian pathos of a “last god” and deny the affliction of finitude. I will argue that Jean-Luc Nancy’s deconstruction of monotheism, as well as his thinking of the world, remains resolutely atheistic, or better a-theological, precisely because of Nancy’s insistence on finitude and his appeal to the Heideggerian motif of the last god. At the same time, I want to underline, by considering it as a Derridean paleonymy, the danger of Nancy’s maintenance of the word “god” to name the infinite opening of the world right at (à meme) the world.

• Date created

  2011

• Subjects / Keywords

  • Nancy, Jean-Luc
  • Monotheism
  • Derridean paleonymy

• Type of Item

  Article (Published)

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/R3WP9TN15

• License

  Attribution-NonCommerical-ShareALike 4.0 International