Dekonstruojant subjektą: postmodernios tendencijos teologinėje antropologijoje
DECONSTRUCTING THE SUBJECT: POSTMODERN TRENDS IN THEOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY

Summary/Abstract: The question of identity is one of the most important throughts in the history of human thought. This fundamental notion acquires attention especially in philosophical and theological anthropologies. As is well known, the postulated by Descartes ego cogito initiated the project of modernity. The article deals with the postmodern deconstruction of this absolute subject (I) and the corresponding notion of knowledge (thought). Despite some radical conclusions by these deconstructive critiques which deny the potential to contemplate the ultimate reality, or at least the possibility to comprehend it, various religious thinkers found postmodern strategies very useful for renovating traditional notions of religious discourse. In this case, the critique of the Cartesian subject turns out to be the hermeneutics of the temporal, historical, practically engaged self which becomes the “foundation” of modern theological anthropology. The deconstruction of various aspects of the Western metaphysical tradition was not a taboo for philosophers of religion to express the experience of the Ultimate. On the contrary, it encouraged to look for new ways of detecting ontological implications of hermeneutics of the self and revealing new aspects of the old Christian narratives. Analysis of these processes forms the structure of the paper.

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