Projects / Programmes
Challenges of Postmodern Philosophy of Religion: Textuality, Transcendence, Community
| Code |
Science |
Field |
Subfield |
| 6.10.00 |
Humanities |
Philosophy |
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| Code |
Science |
Field |
| 6.03 |
Humanities |
Philosophy, Ethics and Religion |
Philosophy of Religion, Postmodernism, Textuality, Hermeneutics, Deconstruction, Phenomenology, Transcendence, God, Other, Religion, Violence, Community, Sense, World
Researchers (1)
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Code |
Name and surname |
Research area |
Role |
Period |
No. of publicationsNo. of publications |
| 1. |
50198 |
PhD Luka Trebežnik |
Philosophy |
Head |
2020 - 2022 |
0 |
Organisations (1)
Abstract
The proposed project is formulated as a response to the crucial present-day questions, when the secular period has become post-secular and the return of the religious, including in philosophy, can be seen on many levels. The project aims to reflect on the historically troubling relationship between faith and reason. I will attempt to extrapolate this relationship in postmodern philosophy and determine how postmodern philosophical thought can approach the complex phenomenon of religion. The project is roughly divided into three major thematic sections, which will serve as pillars of postmodern philosophy of religion – a notion that has not yet been fully formulated as such. In the first part, which will serve as a methodological basis for the project, I will focus on the issue of textuality and interpretation (Derrida, Gadamer). From there, I will highlight the question of transcendence in postmodernism – whether in the form of the pure form of otherness (inspired by Levinas) or a slightly more specific and traditionally heavily determined figure of God (Kearney, Caputo); this will be the core of the second phase of the project. The third part will focus on the question of how postmodern philosophy, with its emphasis on the never sufficient process of interpretation and its emphasis on an always-absent form of otherness, can think of the common. Here I will investigate the concept of community after the end of great communitarian projects (with Nancy and Blanchot) and the theological-political dimension of contemporary philosophical courses (Critchley, de Vries). The project will operate in a multifaceted manner, analyzing major postmodern continental philosophical streams (deconstruction, hermeneutics, phenomenology) to form a comprehensible image of postmodern philosophy of religion that will be able to interpret difficult contemporary phenomena. The approach to the problem will be twofold: I will investigate the possibilities of contemporary philosophical speech about religious phenomena, which can help to deepen our understanding and appreciation of the complexity of religion, and thereby contribute to a deeper relationship with reality in general, on one hand, and I will be paying attention to the obscured religious elements in contemporary philosophical thoughts that often uncritically lead to the extremely problematic blend of theology and politics, on the other. This two-fold approach will aid in overcoming the modern Enlightenment's strict separation between religion and philosophy and will lead to co-operation and mutual enrichment between the two. The results with a newly developed sensibility will help to improve social cohesion and respect for the other. The project will result in at least two scientific publications – the first on the postmodern God and the second on contemporary philosophical formulations of the question of the common –, and an international scientific conference that I will organize on the topic of political-theological elements in contemporary philosophy in the final year of the project; there, I will present my results to distinguished experts in the field.
