Jacques Derrida, the sacred other and Seventh-day Adventism stumbling on the creative play of différance in Genesis 1

This thesis searches for that which is sacred to Jacques Derrida and ultimately concludes that if anything is sacred to him it is the other. This concern for the sacred is an attempt to ascertain Derrida’s relevance and value for religious traditions. Derrida’s ideas serve to destabilise (sacred) centres in religious traditions in order to find place for the (excluded) other. Hence, a central theme of this dissertation is that there are no stable centres. I have attempted to demonstrate this in the structure I have followed, a structure that is "centred on" decentring ideas that, while not arbitrary, could have been substituted for others: negative theology, the other, detours, khôra and différance.

Grantor dc:publisher.institution

Department of Religious Studies

Year dc:date.issued

2012

Author dc:creator

• Platts, Adrian

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Cochrane, James

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11390

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/11390