Nonphenomenality and the Im/Possibility of God: Implications of Jacques Derrida’s “Violence and Metaphysics”

• Main Author: Calano, Mark Joseph T
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2020
• Subjects: Nonphenomenality; Derrida; Violence and Metaphysics; Philosophy
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/philo-faculty-pubs/82; https://ejournals.ph/article.php?id=14750
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

Using Jacques Derrida’s deconstruction of Levinas’s other, the paper argues that philosophy’s involvement with nonphenomenality necessarily leads to a discussion of the im/possibility of God. Because the nonphenomenal is proper to God, then the theological trap becomes explicit in the study of philo...