God the Gift and Postmodernism by John D Caputo PAPERBACK 9780253213280

God, the Gift, and PostmodernismAuthor(s): John D. Caputo, Michael J. Scanlon\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Indiana University Press, United States\nImprint: Indiana University Press\nISBN-13: 9780253213280, 978-0253213280\nSynopsis\nPushing past the constraints of postmodernism which cast \""reason\"" and\""religion\"" in opposition, God, the Gift, and Postmodernism, seizes the opportunity to question the authority of \""the modern\"" and open the limits of possible experience, including the call to religious experience, as a new millennium approaches. Jacques Derrida, the father of deconstruction, engages with Jean-Luc Marion and other religious philosophers to entertain\n questions about intention, givenness, and possibility which reveal the extent to which deconstruction is structured like religion. New interpretations of Kant, Heidegger, Husserl, and Derrida emerge from essays and discussions with distinguished philosophers and theologians from the United States and Europe. The resul.