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Idiom i imię Boga
Idiom and the Name of God

Author(s): Urszula Idziak-Smoczynska
Subject(s): Theology and Religion
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: imię; idiom; Derrida; dekonstrukcja; Babel; teologia antagonistyczna; name; deconstruction; antagonistic theology

Summary/Abstract: In this article the author follows Derrida’s deconstruction of the Babel tower parable, showing how God’s name is structured by difference, instead of identity. The story of the tower of Babel introduces not only the origin of languages and the necessity of translation, but the ultimate untranslatable – the name. God’s name, hence every name becomes for Derrida another quasi-transcendental, which conditions of possibility (identity) are concurrently conditions of impossibility (difference).

  • Issue Year: 53/2020
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 289-302
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Polish