Derrida and Negative Theology

Harold Coward is Director of the Calgary Institute for the Humanities at the University of Calgary. He is author of Derrida and Indian Philosophy and Jung and Eastern Thought; editor of Modern Indian Responses to Religious Pluralism; and co-author of Hindu Ethics: Purity, Abortion, and Euthanasia, all published by SUNY Press. Toby Foshay is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Victoria.

• Acknowledgments Contributors 1. Introduction: Denegation and ResentmentToby Foshay 2. Of an Apocalyptic Tone Newly Adopted in PhilosophyJacques Derrida 3. How to Avoid Speaking: DenialsJacques Derrida 4. On Not Solving Riddles AloneMichel Despland 5. nO nOt nOMark C. Taylor 6. A Hindu Response to Derrida's View of Negative TheologyHarold Coward 7. The Deconstruction of BuddhismDavid Loy 8. Conclusion: Divine ReservationsMorny Joy 9. Post-Scriptum: Aporias, Ways and VoicesJacques Derrida Index

"So we could say that, rather than measuring deconstruction as a negative theology, we are attempting to gauge the degree to which the modern in its negativity is prefigured by the classical tradition in its own characteristic search for autonomy, to better appreciate the genealogy and disjunction of our era." — from the Introduction