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- Publisher
- Brill
- Copyright
- © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
- Subject
- Discussion
- ISSN
- 0085-5553
- eISSN
- 1569-1640
- DOI
- 10.1163/15691640-12341248
- Publisher site
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Abstract
Derrida expanded the twenty-six propositions of “Faith and Knowledge” 1 with a post-scriptum at double their length, with twenty-six further propositions. Now these propositions have been amplified by Michael Naas into a work of some three hundred pages, Miracle and Machine (2012), 2 an expansion sufficiently generous to allow Derrida’s brief remarks on sexual violence to be revisited in two chapters by Naas: “Mary and the Marionettes,” and “Pomegranate Seeds and Scattered Ashes.” Yet “Mary” and “Pomegranate Seeds” can be amplified still further to find some additional meanings for the sexual violence and the sexual difference mentioned by Derrida. I. Sexual Violence and Auto-Immunity Derrida refers, in “Faith and Knowledge,” to forms of sexual violence pretending to defend certain principles. At this point in the text, he has already identified some defenses of religion as involving forms of linguistic and cultural originalism, culturalism, or nationalism, as when the aspiration to “religious indemnification” occurs in relation to “forms of property—linguistic idiom, . . . blood and soil, . . . the family and the nation” (FK, §37). It is in this context that he is also stressing a number of turns to violence in religious contexts. He refers to
Journal
Research in Phenomenology – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 2013