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The trespass of the sign

PERSPECTIVES IN CoNTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY

John D. Caputo, series editor 1. John D. Caputo, ed., Deconstruction in a Nutshell: A Conversation with Jacques Derrida. 2. Michael Strawser, Both/And: Reading Kierkegaard - From Irony to Edification. 3. Michael Barber, Ethical Hermeneutics: Rationality in Enrique Dussel's Philosophy of Liberation. 4. James H. Olthuis, ed., Knowing Other-wise: Philosophy at the Threshold of Spirituality. 5. James Swindal, Reflection Revisited: Jurgen Habermas's Discursive Theory of Truth. 6. Richard Kearney, Poetics of Imagining: Modern and Postmodern. Second edition. 7. Thomas W. Busch, Circulating Being: From Embodiment to Incorporation - Essays on Late Existentialism. 8. Edith Wyschogrod, Emmanuel Levinas: The Problem of Ethical Metaphysics. Second edition. 9. Francis J. Ambrosio, ed., The Question of Christian Philosophy Today. 10. Jeffrey Bloechl, ed., The Face of the Other and the Trace of God: Essays on the Philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas. 11. Ilse N. Bulhof and Laurens ten Kate, eds, Flight of the Gods: Philosophical Perspectives on Negative Theology. 12. Trish Glazebrook, Heidegger's Philosophy of Science.

The trespass of the sign Deconstruction, theology and philosophy KEVIN HART Lecturer in Literary Studies Deakin University

FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS New York· 2000

Copyright © 2000 by Fordham University Press All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means-electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, or any other-except for brief quotations in printed reviews, without the prior permission of the publishers. Perspectives in Continental Philosophy, No. 13 ISSN 1089-3938 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Hart, Kevin, 1954The trespass of the sign : deconstruction, theology, and philosophy I Kevin Hart. p. em. - (Perspectives in continental philosophy ; no. 13) Originally published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1989. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8232-2049-4- ISBN 0-8232-2050-8 (pbk.) 1. Theology. 2. Deconstruction. 3. Metaphysics. I. Title. II. Series. BT83.8.H37 2000 230' .01---dc21 99-089744 Printed in the United States of America 04 03 02 01 00 5 4 3 2 1 Second Edition

ad maiorem Dei gloriam

Contents

Introduction to the 2000 Edition Preface

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I Confrontation

1 Interpretation, signs and God 1 Philosophy and the Fall 2 Clarifications 3 Odium theologi