Derrida on the Secret, Sacrifice, and the Singularity of Death
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What does it mean to tremble before something? In this episode, we cover “Whom to Give to” from Jacques Derrida’s The Gift of Death. Why do we commit to one other instead of all others? Our discussion centers around the notions of the ethical, the universal, and the choices we make. This is a unique work of Derrida’s - one informed by a very focused reading of Kierkegaard’s Fear and Trembling. This conversation cuts through Derrida’s reading of the non-communicative, secret-withholding 'knight of faith'. Derrida’s interpretation of the paradox’s presented by Kierkegaard reveals a very unique position on the nature of commitment to another.
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It should be noted that it is, to no one's fault, essentially impossible to make sense of Judaic spirituality via Greco-Western rationalism. That is of course due to the mechanistic, reductionistic tendency of analytical philosophy, in contrast to the almost absolute openness of ancient Judaic mystic spirituality.
Just a little addition, the lamb that God provides and the reason the sacrifice doesn't take place is because the angel of the Lord is Christ, the lamb and sacrifice
That’s one interpretation, but one must be careful not to overlay readings with later developments in the text; no scholars of the day would have that perspective, and it was only interpreted as such after Christian theology was more settled.
I think this focus seems a bit narrow. Why equate the Absolute simply within a theological framework? Couldn't the Enlightenment be a type of Absolute which transgressed the ethical in the French Revolution? Didn't Stalin "kill his chiildren" (fellow revolutionaries) in the name of the Absolute of the Workers' State. Isn't Capital a type of Absolute which commands its worshippers to sacrifice workers to the altar of profiit? The idea of one of the contributors that they don't believe in an absolute doesn't mean they aren't within some sort of meta-narrative set of assumptions that informs their view of the world and makes demands on them in some sort of Absolutist sense.
If we just see the story of Abraham and Isaac as being about some delusional guy called "God" who tells some naive follower called Abraham to do bad things, we are missing the larger question of how it is that our Absolute frameworks (set of meta-assumptions) of thought permit justifications for transgressing the ethical. In particular how we justify to ourselves how we might abuse our power over those weaker than ourselves. If we then turn back to the story of Abraham and Isaac we perhaps can more meaningfully engage with the dynamics of the story and ask how it might help us reflect on this difficult question.
Can knight of faith ever be a woman?
let’s hope as scarcely a man has been
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